President revives three-year-old conspiracy theory about 2016 debate mic problem
With a single tweet Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump again harked back to his 2016 election victory and suggested Democrats are poised to use dirty tricks to prevent him from winning again.
The president also used his preferred social media platform to pit Texas against New York over the National Rifle Association — popular among his conservative base — as he and his campaign team try to keep the Lone Star State in his column.
The pair of morning tweets showed a president very much in reelection mode serving up red meat for his political base on Twitter. To that end, the Trump team on Monday again showed its focus on the 2020 race when the White House announced Strategic Communications Director Mercedes Schlapp, who has been in the West Wing since Trump was sworn in in 2017, will soon take a role with the Trump-Pence 2020 campaign organization.
View the complete July 2 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.