‘We have to stop politicking every minute,’ Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey shoots back
President Donald Trump tested a new 2020 script Monday night during a raucous rally in El Paso, slamming some new Democratic faces and policy proposals to the delight of a rowdy crowd.
But that doesn’t mean familiar targets and chant-encouraging lines were missing from the campaigner in chief’s roughly 80 minutes on stage in the West Texas border city. The president appeared to be field-testing which 2016 campaign lines to keep in his arsenal and which new ones might keep the conservative base energized — and angry at Democrats.
In some ways, the rally could have been held in 2015 or 2016.
View the complete February 12 article by John T Bennett on The Roll Call website here.