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American Evolution 2024
The Trump card: Here’s why America may double down on the Donald
From conservative cores to cosmopolitan corridors, hollowed-out heartlands to cloud economies, follow US Bureau Chief Bhagyashree Garekar on a journey across the United States ahead of its presidential election in November.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking during a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Nov 1.
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WASHINGTON – When Ms Kerry French, a Republican delegate from the state of Washington, explained Donald Trump’s America First policies to me, I could not resist a smile.
“You know when you’re on a plane and the masks come down?” she began, when I told her that her party’s policies were seen as isolationist in Asia.
