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Trump stumps for midterm candidates in Kentucky, Ohio

President Donald Trump spent Wednesday on the campaign trail in Ohio and northern Kentucky. The President touted lowering prescription drug prices in Ohio and campaigned in the Kentucky district of Rep. Thomas Massie, a vocal opponent of Trump.

Trump has endorsed Massie’s challenger, Ed Gallrein, in Kentucky’s primary on May 19.

He briefly called Gallrein, a farmer, business owner and retired Navy SEAL, to the stage. There, Gallrein declared, “Tom Massie stands with the ladies of ‘The View.’ Mr. President, we stand with you!”

Trump’s swing began with a tour of Thermo Fisher Scientific in suburban Cincinnati. There, he discussed his administration’s efforts to persuade major manufacturers to lower prescription medication prices so that they are closer to what is charged abroad.

“I used some very strong negotiating talent to get every single country to almost immediately approve,” he told reporters.

But the president also told reporters that what was happening in Iran was “an excursion that will keep us out of a war.” He added of Tehran, “for them, it’s a war. For us, it’s turned out to be easier than we thought.”

Also Wednesday, Trump did an interview with Cincinnati’s WKRC-TV CBS and said he planned to tap the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, in an effort to bring down gasoline prices.

Wednesday’s swing was part of a tour the White House said would see Trump travel the country and attempt to show that he’s taking kitchen table issues seriously and reassure voters nervous about still-rising prices and economic growth.

Since November, the president has made stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Texas.



(AP Photos Jon Cherry, Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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