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President Donald Trump’s midterm roadshow to rally the GOP is stopping Wednesday in swing state Arizona and a Republican-leaning U.S. In Bullhead City, Arizona, Trump will be rallying support for Rep. Andy Biggs who seeks the governorship.

Afterward, Trump is set to travel to Western Montana’s 1st District to try to boost Aaron Flint.The trip comes as Republicans are retreating from a handful of battleground U.S. House races, while Democrats are racing to raise money to boost candidates who seemed like long shots earlier this year. The strategy in the final three weeks of midterm campaigns points to an increasingly defensive posture by Republicans and new aggression from Democrats.The Latest:Trump marks Charlie Kirk’s birthdayWednesday would have been the Turning Point USA founder’s 33rd birthday.When Trump mentioned the killed activist’s name, the crowd began chanting “Charlie!

Charlie!” Trump called Kirk, who was assassinated in September 2025, a “great man and a great friend of mine” who helped him win key elections.“He’d be out there fighting like nobody else,” Trump said. “So let’s have a big victory in honor of Charlie Kirk.”Bill Clinton to campaign for Jolly in FloridaThe former president’s first campaign stop of the 2026 election will take him to Hollywood, Florida, on Tuesday to stump for David Jolly, the state’s Democratic candidate for governor.The two will appear at an interfaith event, according to Jolly’s campaign.A Democrat hasn’t won the Florida governor’s race since Lawton Chiles in 1994. But the party is hopeful that Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Tampa, could ride this year’s anti-Trump sentiment and make the race more competitive.Trump hints at ‘things nobody’s seen before’ before he leaves officeThe president, amid the rally crowd’s “Four more years!” chants, acknowledged that the Constitution constrains him from running for a third term.“I’d love to,” Trump said as his supporters continued to yell.

But, he added, “We have a clause that is sort of hard to break.”He noted that the Republican Party has a “great bench” and that his supporters will be happy.And he previewed much more to come in his final two years.“Before I leave, we’ll be doing things nobody’s seen before,” he said.Trump says he has to add military components to DC renovation projects to satisfy CongressThe president was describing h… I’m sorry, because I don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with anymore, but, that’s going to end very soon,” Trump said.Anti-war, Iranian American group claim responsibility for protesting HegsethCodePink, along with an Iranian American advocacy group, has taken responsibility for a protest that interrupted a panel made up of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other military leaders at a U.S. Army conference on Wednesday.The National Iranian American Council said that a group of protesters that included the group’s communications manager, Isabella Javidan, “confronted … Hegseth at a massive gathering of military officials and defense contractors showcasing the latest weapons of war” in a social media post Wednesday.The group has voiced the strongest opposition to the Iran war since the conflict began early this year and advocates and volunteers tied to the organization, which is one of the largest represen…

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