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Nov 2024
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Last election push, Democrat plan for Tr...

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump make last-minute appeals to swing state voters with opinion polls continuing to show the pair locked in a tight race. Democrats are readying a response should Donald Trump try to prematurely claim election victory, as he did in 2020. Some of the biggest Chinese-owned solar factories in Vietnam are cutting production and laying off workers, spurred on by the expansion of U.S. trade tariffs - but new plants are popping up in Laos and Indonesia.


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