.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump identifies a new enemy, Americans he doesn't like
US President Donald Trump speaks during the 2020 "Salute to America" event in honor of Independence Day on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, July 4, 2020. Steve Benen
Four years later, as the president seeks a second term, he's once again letting his followers know about pernicious forces he's eager to defeat, but this time, as TrumpPresident Donald Trump on Friday celebrated Independence Day by defiantly holding a rally at Mount Rushmore amid the pandemic, using the monument to decry protestors who have toppled Confederate, patriarchal and colonial monuments from coast to coast.
"Right now, obviously, Trump has a problem with the middle of the electorate, with independents, and they're the people who are undecided in national elections," Thune."I think he can win those back, but it'll probably require not only a message that deals with substance and policy but, I think, a message that conveys, perhaps, a different tone."
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