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U.S President Donald Trump to visit India and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrange a state dinner at the Taj Mehal. It was supposed that Trump’s India visit would secure his reelection campaign after a trade deal. It is noteworthy that the U.S and Indian officials have been talking for months regarding a trade agreement. The new agreement would bring both economic powers closer, but those negotiations have stopped to the point that the American leader has tried downplaying the chances for an agreement by the time he departs New Delhi. Trump would achieve another 2016 campaign promise if the two sides strike a deal. He was trying to secure an Electoral College backup plan in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada.

Trump is planning to tout the state of the U.S economy and trade pacts he already has secured as a major selling point to voters. He will convince Modi to agree to terms on even a small pact that would give Trump a showman who is not afraid to over-exaggerate facts to his own benefit. It would also give him another chance to show off at rallies in key swing states. Trump said at the Las Vegas rally, “While the extreme left has been wasting America’s time with vile hoaxes, we’ve been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our border lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed”.

He added, “America is no longer for sale. Last month, we ended the NAFTA catastrophe and I signed the brand new US-Mexico-Canada agreement, USMCA. And you remember that USMCA is a gigantic victory for farmers, ranchers and manufacturers all across the great state of Nevada. I also took the strongest ever action to confront China’s massive theft of American jobs. Our strategy worked. Last month, we signed a groundbreaking trade agreement, probably the biggest agreement of any kind ever signed with China”. Point to be noted that Trump and his top aides have admitted the deal with China is simply the 1^st part of an envisioned 2-part agreement. Trump’s top trade negotiators have admitted they left most of the difficult-to-resolve issues for the 2^nd part.