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Head to octopusevo.com to get started today. This week Donald Trump and Paul Ryan held a high profile meeting in Washington aimed at rallying the Republican Party behind the New York

Property Mogul as he prepares to face off against Hillary Clinton in November.

This election is too important to go into an election at half strength. That means we need a real unification of our party.

And in West Virginia, Hillary Clinton lost badly to Bernie Sanders.

And while the former Secretary of State doesn't face the prospect of losing to Mr. Sanders as the nominee, it raises

questions about how she's going to do in November and how she will campaign

against Donald Trump. Welcome to the FT's U.S. election countdown

podcast. I'm Dimitri Sevestopulo.S. election countdown podcast. I'm Demetri Savostopolo.

And I'm Courtney Weaver. We're coming to you this week from our home base in Washington, D.C.

where the city has devolved into a circus.

Donald Trump has made a trip down to the capital to meet with Paul Ryan for the first time.

After Paul Ryan last week said that he was not ready to endorse Trump.

We're fresh off the meeting now, recording on Thursday.

Dimitri, what's the latest?

Well, so it was a fascinating morning.

Everyone has been looking at Paul Ryan and Donald Trump

and wondering whether they would patch up the differences

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