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0:00I'm Julie Walker with the AP News Minute. In the earliest days of this election cycle, the U.S. wasn't at war with Iran. The East Wing of the White House was still standing. The Kennedy Center wasn't threatened with demolition. AI data centers weren't bipartisan shorthand for the tech sector's excesses. Democratic socialists were largely confined to the outer edges of political discourse. Lake Ontario's name wasn't in question. Since President Trump entered politics more than a decade ago, he's had a knack for dominating the national conversation so thoroughly that it can be hard to keep up. But as the final midterm of his presidency rapidly approaches, the landscape is proving especially volatile with Trump often stirring it. Here's how Speaker Mike Johnson with reporters last week on whether the frenzy will hurt his party's election prospects. Some of these things are out of our control. Even the map is in flux with Texas, California and Florida, among the states that have redrawn congressional districts. I'm Julie Walker. We have the tech to get food delivered in 15 minutes, but we all have horror stories about

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