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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

Kamala Harris is belatedly courting progressives. Is it too little, too late?

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‘This week she flew to Michigan, one of the states she lost to Trump in 2024, to join the Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a roundtable.’ Photograph: David Guralnick/Reuters

Does Donald Trump secretly want Republicans to get annihilated in the midterms? Because he’s certainly acting that way. He continues to brush off concerns about the cost of living, saying last week that high gas prices are a very “inexpensive price to pay” for the war on Iran.

And, of course, the president seems to have no plans to end that disastrous war, apart from making vague threats about blowing the entire country up. Trust me, he keeps saying, everything will get better after the midterms. But by the looks of his dismal polling numbers, not many people are swallowing his empty promises anymore.

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