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Trump Tries, Again, to Refocus on Economy Amid Immigration Furor

Clashes at home and unfinished fights abroad keep overtaking the message.
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the White House lawns.Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, domestic policy and politics reporter Gregory Korte looks at how the president is trying to refocus his message for the midterm campaign. Sign up here. Email our editors here.

President Donald Trump wants the midterm election campaign to be about what he’s doing for the economy. But once again, the debate is getting hijacked by events largely of his own making.