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Trump and Rubio head to Texas to stump for Ken Paxton as midterms campaign enters final week – US politics live

Trump and Rubio head to Texas to stump for Ken Paxton as midterms campaign enters final week – US politics live

President and secretary of state to flaunt oil tanker filled with Venezuelan crude bound for Texas refineries

Speaking to reporters on the tarmac before departing for a campaign event in Michigan, JD Vance responded to a question about President Trump’s remarks branding Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as a “jihadist.”

Vance, who has sparred with the progressive El-Sayed repeatedly on the campaign trail, took a somewhat softer tone. But he didn’t walk away from Trump’s remarks.

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