Republicans and Democrats can work together on healthcare, says Trump, as rise in premiums looms – US politics live

Key Highlights

• We’re not good at our messaging a lot of times as Republicans.
• The Democrats are professionals at it.
• We’re not good at it.”The latest setbacks came this week when a Democrat won the Miami mayor’s race for the first time in three decades.
• Democrats also won a special election in a historically Republican district in Georgia.
• Latest polling shows Trump’s approval ratings are down since March (see 10.52). Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, recently told a podcast that Trump will campaign aggressively next year and the party will effectively “put him on the ballot.” But the challenge of that strategy was on display this week when a trip to Pennsylvania intended to focus on combating inflation was instead overshadowed by grievances about immigrants from “filthy” countries.“We have a lot of work to do and a lot of it’s going to depend at the national level in particular on what Republicans do to affect the affordability issues,” said Republican state senator John Braun.