{"id":71995,"date":"2026-04-17T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/trump-tours-states-with-message-to-voters-ahead-of-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:20","slug":"trump-tours-states-with-message-to-voters-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/trump-tours-states-with-message-to-voters-ahead-of-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Tours States With Message to Voters Ahead of Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is kicking off a tour of western states and trying to change the political subject away from the Iran war and attempting to turn the spotlight on his economic policies. In Las Vegas, Trump highlighted falling gas prices with the national average down seven cents a gallon in the last week, but still nearly a dollar higher than this time last year. NBC\u2019s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is kicking off a tour of western states and trying to change the political subject away from the Iran war and attempting to turn the spotlight on his economic policies. In Las Vegas, Trump highlighted falling gas prices with the national average down seven cents a gallon in the last week, but &#8230; <a title=\"Trump Tours States With Message to Voters Ahead of Midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/trump-tours-states-with-message-to-voters-ahead-of-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump Tours States With Message to Voters Ahead of Midterms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}