Over the course of 24 hours, the Trump campaign scrambled to repackage the president's Twitter attack as a broader patriotic message
Within hours of President Donald Trump’s radioactive tweets on Sunday urging several minority Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to other countries, his campaign was scrambling to repackage the attack into a broader patriotic message.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Several advisers and allies expressed concern that the president was undoing months of campaign work to frame the upcoming election as a choice between an America-loving, pro-capitalist president, and a Democratic Party beholden to fringe socialists who hate America and despise capitalism.
“Right now, you’ve got a group of people who are relatively new to Trump world who are still of the mind that they can endure stuff like this. The only way to preserve your sanity is to understand that wave after wave of people have tried to get [Trump] to do certain things and so you either sign up for who he is or get out while you can,” the former official said.
Publicly, Trump’s allies argue that the president’s tweets helps him evade media spin. Trump employs Twitter “to speak directly to the American people without the filter of corporate media and poll-tested talking points,” said Kelly Sadler, spokeswoman for the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action, in a text to POLITICO.
Despite the corresponding slumps in his approval rating, Trump advisers still struggle to convince the president his line-crossing comments will damage his reelection prospects. Part of the problem, according to the former White House official, is that the president often develops a skewed perception of his support among minority voters.
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