{"id":359558,"date":"2025-12-20T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359558\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:23:10","slug":"trump-tries-to-allay-voter-anxiety-by-touting-economic-wins-dodges-epstein-files-in-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359558\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tries to allay voter anxiety by touting economic wins, dodges Epstein files in rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> began a rally on Friday night in North Carolina talking about crime and then highlighted his efforts to combat economic uncertainty \u2013 while also steering clear of addressing new disclosures involving the convicted sex offender <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/jeffrey-epstein?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In front of hundreds of people at Rocky Mount Event Centre in eastern North Carolina, Trump cited a high-profile crime that galvanised his base and went through recent consumer price index data, recounting stories of threatening tariffs to get better terms on deals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The president also sought to shore up a vulnerability with the expiration of Affordable Care Act credits in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump warned that the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/united-states?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US<\/a> government could in late January head into another shutdown, after a record one that ended last month, with Congress deadlocked on how to address rising insurance premium costs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYou could have another shutdown, because the Democrats are totally in the hands of, they\u2019re totally controlled by the insurance companies, big wealthy companies,\u201d Trump told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump leaves the stage following his speech in Rocky Mount on Friday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a21ad158-79ce-4cd5-82d7-02da3ee895dd_990db069.jpg\" title=\"President Donald Trump leaves the stage following his speech in Rocky Mount on Friday. Photo: AP\"\/>President Donald Trump leaves the stage following his speech in Rocky Mount on Friday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The president did not mention the release of the Epstein files \u2013 a measure that he initially resisted before a rare moment of him bowing to intraparty pressure \u2013 during the rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump began a rally on Friday night in North Carolina talking about crime and then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2139,23,1340,4515,12,49590,2808,177700,2402,14825,3319,3,2256,161189,2186,177701,9287,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-359558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-america","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein-files","tag-florida","tag-house-and-senate","tag-inflation","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-joe-biden","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-republican-national-committee","tag-republicans","tag-rocky-mount-event-centre","tag-thom-tillis","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}