Ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections, President Donald Trump is making a rare appearance in Nevada on Wednesday to sell voters on his handling of the economy against a backdrop of high interest rates, a national housing shortage and gasoline made more expensive by the Iran war.<\/p>\n
He is seeking to shore up support for Republicans ahead of the November elections, which will determine which party controls Congress.<\/p>\n
The AP declared El-Sayed the winner after confirming Wednesday morning that there were simply not enough votes left to count that would allow Stevens to catch up. El-Sayed\u2019s victory was so narrow that his victory wasn\u2019t assured until almost all statewide ballots were counted. At the time AP declared him the winner, El-Sayed led Stevens by 14,893 votes \u2014 a margin of just under 1 percentage point \u2014 out of more than 1.5 million ballots counted. See full results<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vance says Trump suggested he take parental leave \u2014 for one day<\/p>\n Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that aired Wednesday on Fox News Channel that Trump called him last month the day his newest son was born and suggested he take some time off.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Well, Mr. President, I\u2019ve got a meeting with you tomorrow.\u2019 And he said, \u2019Yeah, take some time off. Like today,\u201d Vance said with a laugh.<\/p>\n Celebrities make appearances at Trump\u2019s Vegas speech<\/p>\n Retired boxing champ Mike Tyson made an appearance at Trump\u2019s speech, sitting with Rick Harrison of television show \u201cPawn Stars\u201d and Gov. Joe Lombardo.<\/p>\n Trump gave a shout out to Tyson from the stage, saying he saw his Broadway show called \u201cMike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of Broadway shows, and he was fantastic,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n Trump revives little-mentioned health care plan<\/p>\n The president toward the end of his remarks in Las Vegas said that with the help of a Republican-controlled Congress, \u201cWe will pass the Great Healthcare Plan. It\u2019s called the Great Healthcare Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n The centerpiece of his proposal is to send money directly to Americans for health savings accounts to pay for insurance and health costs.<\/p>\n Trump says \u2018we may have to\u2019 send oil prices higher<\/p>\n As he often does, the president predicted that oil prices will fall once the war in Iran is over \u2013 something he has been saying for weeks, but which has yet to fully come to fruition.<\/p>\n Trump, however, added a new wrinkle in his Las Vegas speech. He noted that the price of oil has stabilized somewhat recently, \u201cAnd we may have to send it up again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe may have to \u2014 you know what happens when we send it up. But we hope we don\u2019t have to,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t clarify what he meant by that. But oil prices have typically risen as the war in Iran continues \u2014 despite Trump\u2019s repeated assurances that the conflict will soon be over.<\/p>\n Trump jogs to stop toddler from running off stage<\/p>\n The president invited up a Las Vegas couple who work as a police officer and casino waitress, along with their two very young children, to talk about the tax breaks on overtime and tips in Trump\u2019s sweeping legislation signed last year.<\/p>\n As Trump stepped aside to let them speak, their young toddler began quickly wandering off toward the edge of the stage.<\/p>\n Trump quickly moved to intercept the youngster, and then cracked a joke about his predecessor Joe Biden that was not quite audible.<\/p>\n Schumer says he spoke with El-Sayed<\/p>\n Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he\u2019s spoken with Abdul El-Sayed after the Democrat won his party\u2019s nomination for Senate in Michigan.<\/p>\n El-Sayed defeated Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens, who Schumer had backed, and ran on an anti-establishment platform.<\/p>\n In an interview after the call, Schumer said that El-Sayed \u201cis a very good candidate\u201d and that Michigan is a \u201cvery important path\u201d to winning the Senate.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s brought in some real strengths\u201d and new voters, Schumer said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to work together and our mission is of course to win Michigan and take back the Senate,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n Trump says he\u2019d \u2018like to fire\u2019 Supreme Court justices appointed by Democrats<\/p>\n The president complained that the high court\u2019s \u201cRepublican judges, or justices, don\u2019t stick together.\u201d<\/p>\n He said that the court\u2019s three liberal judges \u201cnever veer\u201d and that \u201cI respect that.\u201d<\/p>\n But Trump added, \u201cIt\u2019s too bad they\u2019re on\u201d the court, and that \u201ca couple of them just don\u2019t belong.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d like to fire them,\u201d Trump said, before suggesting that he was simply responding to Democratic calls to add justices to the court as a way of offsetting the three conservative judges Trump himself appointed.<\/p>\n Trump lashes out at Michigan\u2019s Democratic Senate nominee<\/p>\n The president called Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> a communist and predicted that the Democrat would lose to Republican nominee Mike Rogers, a former congressman, in November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n Trump made particularly charged comments about El-Sayed\u2019s views on Israel. The Democrat has called for ending U.S. military aid to Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t love Jewish people. He hates them,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe hates them with a passion that burns in his heart and there\u2019s not a fricking thing he can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim senator, has rejected accusations of antisemitism.<\/p>\n \u201cMy commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment to the safety of my own daughters,\u201d he said Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n Trump again insists that his White House ballroom is a \u2018military complex\u2019<\/p>\n The president told the Las Vegas crowd, \u201cI\u2019m building this big military complex\u201d and that it includes \u201ca lot of different things, and some of the things I can\u2019t even talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n Later, though, he said the project will still be a ballroom.<\/p>\n Trump originally said the ballroom that he demolished the White House\u2019s East Wing to build would be paid for himself and some friendly donors. But costs have ballooned and Senate Republicans eventually tried to advance $1 billion in funding for White House security and military improvements as part of the new complex.<\/p>\n That proposal has since stalled. But Trump continues to say the ballroom will have strategic value, saying it will include things like drone ports.<\/p>\n After insulting Canadians, Trump promotes a mining project in Nevada by a Canadian firm<\/p>\n Trump in his speech brought up the development of one of the world\u2019s largest lithium mines in northern America, the Thacker Pass project.<\/p>\n The U.S. government last year announced it was taking a minority stake in Vancouver-based Lithium Americas, which is jointly developing the mine with General Motors. The U.S. also took a 5% stake in the mine itself.<\/p>\n Trump told the crowd in Las Vegas, more than 500 miles away on the other end of the state, that \u201cMany people in this audience are going to be working there, and you are working there.\u201d<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t mention that the U.S. government was taking a stake in the project, but shortly after that in his speech, he began warning about the dangers of communism.<\/p>\n Trump says US exports are \u2018totally on fire in a positive way\u2019<\/p>\n The president is trying to convince Americans that his policies have led the rest of the world to buy American goods, but his claims lack context.<\/p>\n \u201cJust yesterday, it was announced that American exports are totally on fire in a positive way,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019ve skyrocketed exports to the highest level in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Tuesday that American exports in June fell 0.9% to $314.7 billion. On a three-month moving average, exports are also down.<\/p>\n However, exports have increased 11.7% so far this year, largely because of increased exports of gold, oil and other energy products. Energy prices have increased this year because of the Iran war.<\/p>\n Trump at start of Nevada address honors fallen Las Vegas police officer<\/p>\n Officer Austin Abdelnabi, 30, a U.S. Marine veteran, was killed in the line of duty on Tuesday while responding to a report of a person with a gun acting erratically and waving a firearm in the air at a business, according to police.<\/p>\n \u201cAustin died a hero, and he will never be forgotten, never going to be forgotten,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSo to every law enforcement officer here today, we thank you for your service. And we say, God bless the men and women of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. And frankly, all of law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s comments came after a man in the crowd loudly booed Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo when he referenced Abdelnabi before the president took the stage.<\/p>\n \u201cNo. We\u2019re not booing him. He\u2019s the officer that passed away here recently,\u201d Lombardo replied.<\/p>\n Trump insults Canadians as he takes the stage in Las Vegas<\/p>\n Trump was expounding on the tariffs he\u2019s imposed that\u2019s touched off a contentious trade war with Canada and told the crowd that, \u201cCanada\u2019s nasty. They are. They\u2019re nasty.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI love the people, but they\u2019re nasty,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n Las Vegas\u2019 tourism-dependent economy has been hit by a slump in visits from tourists and the city\u2019s mayor has said visits from Canada<\/a> \u2014 Nevada\u2019s largest international market \u2014 has dried up in the wake of Trump\u2019s trade policies and insults to its northern neighbor.<\/p>\n Nevada governor urges Republicans to vote in November\u2019s election<\/p>\n Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo faces Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford in what is considered one of the most competitive governor\u2019s races in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have a choice to get up off the couch,\u201d he told a crowd of hundreds waiting to hear Trump speak. \u201cYou have a choice to walk to the ballot and cast your vote.\u201d<\/p>\n Nevada residents also have an opportunity to vote for a state ballot initiative on voter ID in November, he said. It passed by a significant margin in 2024 but needs a second vote to take effect.<\/p>\n Lombardo highlighted his partnership with Trump, the first Republican presidential candidate to win the Silver State in 20 years. He said a federal decision had threatened Nevada\u2019s solar industry, so he spoke to Trump about it and Trump fixed it.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s always taken my phone call,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n Trump will be talking about the economy at a Las Vegas casino<\/p>\n Hundreds of people waited in a long line wrapped around slot machines at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa to get in to see the president.<\/p>\n Tom Port, a professional driver, said he is saving money with Trump\u2019s move to cut tax from tips.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s about the best thing he could have possibly done for me, considering a large portion of my income comes directly from tips,\u201d said Port, 36.<\/p>\n Terilyn Taylor, 60, a teacher in Las Vegas, said she likes Trump, but also thinks home prices, interest rates and gas prices are too high.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s all Trump\u2019s fault,\u201d she said. But she would like to see the Iran war end.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought the gas prices would be temporary, so I\u2019m really ready for the Iran thing to be resolved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Temporary status officially ends for 350,000 Haitians<\/p>\n U.S. District judge Ana Reyes on Wednesday was forced to lift her stay that had blocked the Trump administration from terminate Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians<\/a> who had been living and working legally in the United States since 2010.<\/p>\n She issued the order after a Supreme Court ruling on June 25 that sided with the administration\u2019s decision to end the program.<\/p>\n As part of its crackdown on immigration, the Trump administration terminated TPS for about 1 million people from more than a dozen countries, including Haitians.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a result of today\u2019s order implementing the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, Haitian TPS holders \u2014 all of them noncriminals \u2014 can no longer legally work, and many are subject to removal to Haiti,\u201d Geoff Pipoly, the lead counsel for the Haitians, said.<\/p>\n Brazil\u2019s president calls the Trump administration\u2019s decision to revoke ambassador\u2019s visa \u2018irresponsible\u2019<\/p>\n The United States\u2019 decision followed Brazil\u2019s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of upcoming elections as well as what the U.S. said was Brazil\u2019s stalling on approving Trump\u2019s nominee to be ambassador in Brasilia.<\/p>\n While Brazil\u2019s ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti is not being expelled from the United States, if she leaves she would have to reapply for a visa, Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said in an interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s an irresponsible, ill-considered course of action for a country with 203 years of diplomacy and diplomatic relations,\u201d Lula said.<\/p>\n Plane took off as Trump\u2019s helicopter approached Reagan airport<\/p>\n The FAA is investigating because it appears to be a violation of safety procedures put in place after last year\u2019s midair collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport.<\/p>\n A commercial jet took off Tuesday from the busy Washington, D.C., airport at the same time that Marine One left the White House for Andrews Air Force Base with the president aboard. The jet was climbing above Marine One as the helicopter approached, so the two aircraft were not on a collision course.<\/p>\n After a January 2025 collision that killed 67 people, the FAA decided all takeoffs and landings at Reagan would be halted anytime a helicopter passes by the airport.<\/p>\n Bernie Sanders praises El-Sayed\u2019s primary win as historic sign of \u2018unstoppable\u2019 change for Democrats<\/p>\n \u201cAbdul\u2019s victory was, in my opinion, the most extraordinary victory that I can think of in modern American politics,\u201d said Vermont independent Sen. Sanders during a call with reporters.<\/p>\n Sanders also congratulated two progressive candidates who won U.S. House primaries in the state and commended Rep. Haley Stevens for conceding a \u201ctough\u201d race.<\/p>\n Sanders said El-Sayed \u201ctook on\u201d the Democratic establishment and outside spending from groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He said the result was a sign of further change.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new Democratic Party is going to be broad-based. It\u2019s going to be open and encouraging the participation of working-class people, of young people, of lower-income people. Democracy is messy, and I\u2019m not going to sit here and tell you that everything is going to go 100% smoothly and there\u2019s not going to be differences of opinion. That\u2019s called democracy. I happen to believe in that. But that is the direction in which we are heading, and I think that is unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders dismisses concerns about El-Sayed\u2019s electability<\/p>\n Asked about progressive Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s ability to turn out core Democratic constituencies including Black and Jewish voters, Sanders said that El-Sayed\u2019s economic message had broad appeal.<\/p>\n \u201cI think his economic message will resonate across Democratic constituencies, and I think there\u2019ll be working-class Republicans who will support that,\u201d Sanders told reporters.<\/p>\n He argued that El-Sayed \u201chas the capability of expanding the voter turnout universe, and much many of those new voters will be voting for him.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders dismissed concerns that El-Sayed\u2019s criticism of Israel\u2019s handling of the war in Gaza will alienate Jewish voters.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be critical of the right-wing extremist government of Netanyahu and his horrific policies in Gaza does not make you antisemitic,\u201d said Sanders, who is Jewish.<\/p>\n Democratic turnout in Michigan primary one of the highest in state history<\/p>\n The Democratic U.S. Senate contest in Michigan has surpassed turnout for previous Senate and gubernatorial primaries and almost every presidential primary going back to at least 1978, according to Michigan Secretary of State records.<\/p>\n As of noon ET Wednesday, a total of 1,528,280 votes had been counted. The total could end up being higher as ballots continue to be processed.<\/p>\n But it already surpasses the roughly 1,181,000 votes counted in the 2020 U.S. Senate Democratic primary, and the approximately 1,131,000 votes counted in the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary.<\/p>\n The 2026 turnout total so far trails the nearly 1,588,000 votes counted in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. About 1,117,000 votes were counted in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.<\/p>\n North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards quits reelection bid after committee finds inappropriate conduct<\/p>\n The House Ethics Committee recommended the Republican be censured<\/a> for unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides in his office. Edwards denied intending any of his conduct<\/a> to be a sexual or romantic advance, but the committee said his behavior would \u201clead a reasonable observer to interpret it as such.\u201d<\/p>\n State law requires Edwards to submit his Wednesday withdrawal in writing to the state Board of Elections before ballots are mailed to overseas voters and the military. Since the primaries were months ago, the Republican executive committee in his district will name a replacement.<\/p>\n US removes Fly Baghdad from sanctions list<\/p>\n The U.S. removed sanctions on three Iran-linked companies, including Fly Baghdad Airlines, which was sanctioned in January 2024 for allegedly providing assistance to Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian proxy groups in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Also removed from the sanctions is Fly Baghdad\u2019s CEO and two aircraft.<\/p>\n In addition to lifting sanctions on Fly Baghdad, the U.S. on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Iraq Express and another Fly Baghdad-linked company. A Treasury official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the sanctions said the decision to remove Fly Baghdad from the designations list was not indicative of any shift in U.S. policy toward Iran\u2019s government.<\/p>\n El-Sayed said he condemns antisemitism, wants to address \u2018everybody\u2019s pain\u2019<\/p>\n El-Sayed said he wants to unify people rather than divide them, and that people should focus on ending wars and corporate influence in politics. He has previously faced criticism for calling Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza a \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n El-Sayed said \u201cwe can be talking about everybody\u2019s pain.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy commitment to Jewish safety is the same as I\u2019ve got a commitment to my own kids,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s the highest commitment I can offer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections, President Donald Trump is making a rare appearance in Nevada on Wednesday to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":983393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,1801,74154,5510,80,448,277,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-983392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-international","tag-international-politics","tag-latest","tag-politics","tag-the","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117045705709848130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}