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Trump’s damage is done. Democrats – and Europe – are struggling to define what’s next
Many of the Democrats who came to the Munich Security Conference this weekend want to be president. But even if one of them can win the White House in 2028, they may find they can no longer claim the title every American president since the 1940s has borne: leader of the free world.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom went on stage to insist his state is more permanent than President Donald Trump. But he acknowledged in an interview with CNN that the leaders he met with believe the damage to the transatlantic alliance is irrevocable.
Progressive star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York came to pitch a left-wing populist foreign policy but made headlines for a massive stumble instead.
'Trump will be gone in three years': Top Democrats try to reassure Europe
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the centre of attention at the Munich Security Summit, as European leaders wondered apprehensively what tone he would strike in his remarks on Saturday.
While his speech did not fully allay their concerns, it has been viewed as a reassurance to allies that while US relations may have frayed under Donald Trump, they will not break.
Rubio's was not the only US political voice at the security summit, however.
And even if the secretary of state's remarks had not been so well-received – if he had sharply criticised Europeans the way Vice-President JD Vance did at the conference last year – there were other US politicians doing their best impression of the Persian poet, counselling: "This too shall pass."
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US Governor Gavin Newsom: Trump has 'unified Europe'
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Speaking with DW, California Governor Gavin Newsom praised European leaders: "What he [Donald Trump] respects is strength, unity, conviction. And I think that's on display here in Munich."
Just a few weeks after criticizing the EU's "complicity" in the face of US President Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, California Governor Gavin Newsom had something different to say at the Munich Security Conference.
"The European Union, I feel, is more centered than it's been in some time because they recognize what's at stake," he told DW. "The success of Europe is the success of the United States. There's an interdependence here."
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