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Trump Wants to Rally GOP Base Over Immigration

June 19, 2018 at 1:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As Republicans try to keep their midterm election strategy focused on the economy, tax cuts and falling unemployment, President Trump sent his clearest signal yet on Monday that he intends to make divisive, racially charged issues like immigration central going into the campaign season,” the New York Times reports.

“Facing bipartisan criticism over his administration’s family separation practice on the border, Mr. Trump renewed the sort of bald and demagogic attacks on undocumented immigrants that worked well for him politically in his 2016 presidential campaign.”

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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