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Korva Coleman
In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump heads to Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, today for an event about the economy. And as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, the focus comes as Trump faces polls showing voters blame him for high prices.
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Tamara Keith
Trump has spent very little time during his second term traveling around the country to sell voters on his policies. Now, with his approval ratings at a low point and administration officials asking voters for patience, Trump heads to a resort in his swing district in Pennsylvania to talk about the economy. He's called affordability a Democratic con job and a hoax. But yesterday at the White House, democracy dialed it back a little.
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Interviewee / Quoted Speaker
We brought prices way down from what it was. We inherited high prices.
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Tamara Keith
The most recent numbers show the inflation rate in September was the same as it was during former President Biden's last month in office. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Trump has also given a wide ranging interview to Politico. It's out this morning. Trump says he gives the US Economy a grade of A.
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Plus. He says he inherited his economic woes. The president says American farmers will get a bailout of $12 billion to help them cope with the effects of his global tariffs. That includes retaliation from other countries. U.S. farmers have lost sales. The Gulf States Newsroom's Drew Hawkins has been speaking to farmers in Louisiana. He says farmer James Davis has been struggling.
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Interviewee / Quoted Speaker
Davis said that the the Trump administration's tariff relief plan is really crucial. It is hard to make crop loans work on paper. So it's imperative and very imperative that the Trump administration get these payments out as soon as possible. And Davis says that without what the president did, which he described as a bailout, many farmers are going to go belly up is how he put it. They won't be able to continue farming. And that includes himself.
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Korva Coleman
Drew Hawkins reporting. State senators in Indiana have advanced a measure to the Senate that would redraw the state's congressional districts. It aims to send more Indiana Republicans to Congress. From member station wfyi, Ben Thorpe tells us President Trump has demanded the redistricting.
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Ben Thorpe
Trump has pressured Indiana lawmakers to support a new map for months, even threatening primary challenges against state senators who don't. Speakers at the committee hearing hope to sway state Senate Republicans who have been divided on whether they support the move lawmakers have faced anonymous threats in recent weeks, including bomb threats, although the motives are still unknown. Republican State Senator Greg Walker, who is opposed to redistricting, urged his colleagues not to support the bill.
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That's a shall and that's in our rules, and I refuse to be intimidated. I made a choice.
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Ben Thorpe
The bill passed out of committee on a 6 to 3 vote. A final vote is expected on Thursday. For NPR News, I'm Ben Thorpe in Indianapolis.
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Korva Coleman
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New research shows that AI chatbots can influence how people feel about political candidates. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports. Chatbots could play a bigger role in future elections.
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Windsor Johnston
A new study published in the journal Nature and Science tested whether AI chatbots could sway voter opinions. Researchers asked thousands of people in the U.S. canada and Poland to chat with bots to make simple arguments for or against specific candidates. After just a few minutes of back and forth, many participants shifted their views, sometimes by several percentage points. Experts say the effect comes from the personalized exchange. The chatbots quickly respond, adjust their tone and tailor their reasoning in a way traditional political ads can't. But the study also found some chatbots mixed accurate points with misleading ones, raising concerns about how they can be used in future campaigns. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
NBA player Terry Rozier has pleaded not guilty to federal charges on fraud and money laundering. He's accused of helping others in a sprawling gambling scheme. Some of it was allegedly based on his performance as a guard for the Miami Heat. Other suspects include alleged members of organized crime. Fighting has increased between Cambodia and Thailand at their disputed border. The clashes break a ceasefire they recently signed that was brokered by President Trump and Malaysian leaders. Both Cambodia and Thailand are blaming each other, and they're evacuating civilians as the fighting spreads. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News, in Washington.
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