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‘Louder and more hateful’: Big-city leaders say Trump’s attacks on Baltimore are escalation of his strategy to denigrate diverse, liberal areas

"From AOC to George Bush’s daughter — Donald Trump’s racist tweets are taking a beating"

Trump is taking heat for his racism, however Trump likely knows his pushing it could still be the key to his reelection. See excerpt below.

By David Nakamura
July 28 at 8:10 PM

President Trump’s denunciations of Baltimore as an uninhabitable city are the latest in a string of disparaging attacks on diverse, liberal enclaves as violent, dirty and outside the mainstream — rhetoric that paints those areas of the country as fundamentally less American than whiter, more conservative strongholds.

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“His spewing of white supremacist rhetoric is unending,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) said in an interview Sunday, adding: “I fear that the rhetoric will only get louder and more hateful the closer we get to the election.”

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An analysis last week from David Wassermann, an editor at the Cook Political Report, suggested that Trump could lose the popular vote by as many as 5 million — nearly twice the number he lost by in 2016 — yet still go on to reelection in the electoral college .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/how-the-electoral-college-works/?tid=a_inl_auto .. next year if he is able to drive his supporters to the polls in key swing states.

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At the Turning Point USA conference, Trump repeated his baseless assertion that large numbers of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2016 election and called results in California, which he lost, “totally rigged.” His own Commission on Voter Fraud disbanded in January 2018 without finding any such evidence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/louder-and-more-hateful-big-city-leaders-say-trumps-attacks-on-baltimore-are-escalation-of-his-strategy-to-denigrate-diverse-liberal-areas/2019/07/28/45448ad0-b16a-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html?utm_term=.5c2304fe62ac