Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi was everything MAGA didn’t need amid dire predictions

While Trump is busy giving tours of his ballroom and dines with tech CEOs, Republicans now have to run in a midterm amid high gas prices and a backlash to AI, Eric Garcia writes

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