🇪🇸 Spanish Vocabulary — 18 Jul 2026

"Declarations that agriculture can revive the economy will remain aspirational so long as the authorities continue to avoid policy reforms."

"Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms."

"Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms."

"The Georgia senator Jon Ossoff, who is the most imperiled Democratic facing re-election in November, said he heard Trump “signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020”."

"With polls showing that the president is disliked by majorities of voters and his Republican allies are at risk of losing their control of the House of Representatives, the president’s Thursday evening speech rehashing allegations about the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden sparked fears he was already looking for ways to ensure November’s results are in his favor."

"The top Republicans in Congress were comparatively silent."

"According to him, today’s terrorism is the “blowback” of “mistakes committed by dictators in the past”, referring to the respective involvement of generals Zia and Musharraf in Afghanistan."

"Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms."

"What can be said at this point is that even unproven speculation of transnational intimidation damage credibility and strain inter-state relations."

"Cisco Aguilar, chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, said: “That was some bullshit.”"

"Conspiracy theories took over social media soon after the shooting, with some claiming that the assassination attempt against Trump was staged."

"Even some of the president’s erstwhile allies found his speech wanting."

"The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to return to the White House."