Trump and Vance kick off campaign push ahead of midterms
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance kicked off a campaign push as the GOP seeks to increase voter enthusiasm ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Trump traveled Thursday to Texas and Oklahoma, kicking off what he said would be a 32-day campaign blitz. In Oklahoma, he campaigned with Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Mazzei, who is running against Democratic state House Minority Leader Cyndi Munson. The rally, held on the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, marked a rare visit by a sitting president to a tribal nation.
Vance was stumping in Florida on Thursday. Trump was scheduled to continue the tour Friday with a rally in Mobile, Alabama, alongside Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican candidate for governor, and other GOP candidates.
The effort comes as Republicans try to retain control of Congress and face concerns about voter sentiment on the economy and cost of living. An Associated Press-NORC poll cited by Fortune found that 17% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s handling of living costs, while 26% approved of his handling of the economy.
Trump said Wednesday that Republicans had not effectively promoted his administration’s record. “I’m going out because nobody’s selling it,” he told reporters. The Republican National Committee said the tour would energize the party’s base and support candidates, while Democratic officials characterized the visits as evidence of Republican concern about increasingly competitive races.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story needed small tense and attribution fixes to avoid overstating what the sources establish about the start of the blitz and Vance’s Florida stop. - "Trump and Vance launch red-state campaign blitz ahead of midterms": The sources say Trump and Vance were kicking off or preparing for the campaign push, not that both had already launched a red-state blitz. - "President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance began a campaign push through heavily Republican states": The sources say Trump traveled to Texas and Oklahoma and Vance was stumping in Florida; they do not establish that both began a push through heavily Republican states. - "Trump traveled Thursday to Texas and Oklahoma, launching what he described as a 32-day campaign blitz.": Fortune says Trump’s travel kicked off what he said would be a 32-day campaign blitz; the story’s phrasing makes it sound as if Trump explicitly described the Thursday travel itself that way. - "Vance campaigned in Florida on Thursday.": The sources say Vance would be stumping in Florida on Thursday, not that he had already campaigned there.
THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance begankicked off a campaign push through heavily Republican states as the GOP seeks to increase voter enthusiasm ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Trump traveled Thursday to Texas and Oklahoma, launchingkicking off what he describedsaid aswould be a 32-day campaign blitz. In Oklahoma, he campaigned with Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Mazzei, who is running against Democratic state House Minority Leader Cyndi Munson. The rally, held on the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, marked a rare visit by a sitting president to a tribal nation.
Vance campaignedwas stumping in Florida on Thursday. Trump was scheduled to continue the tour Friday with a rally in Mobile, Alabama, alongside Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican candidate for governor, and other GOP candidates.
The effort comes as Republicans try to retain control of Congress and face concerns about voter sentiment on the economy and cost of living. An Associated Press-NORC poll cited by Fortune found that 17% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s handling of living costs, while 26% approved of his handling of the economy.
Trump said Wednesday that Republicans had not effectively promoted his administration’s record. “I’m going out because nobody’s selling it,” he told reporters. The Republican National Committee said the tour would energize the party’s base and support candidates, while Democratic officials characterized the visits as evidence of Republican concern about increasingly competitive races.
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