First campaign rally of 2019 sets tone for reelection effort

By Philip Bump
February 12 at 11:10 AM

... “Our agenda is not a partisan agenda,” Trump continued, reading from the teleprompter. This was his message from the State of the Union address, too: These things he wants to do are simply the things that Americans broadly want to do, he asserts and, perhaps, believes. An expanded wall on the border with Mexico is demonstrably not something most Americans support, but you wouldn’t know that if you looked only at Trump’s rally attendees or his favorite media outlets.

Trump’s speechwriter, at least, seems to get that framing his positions as bipartisan is a way to soften up the fervent opposition to his administration that he’s seen. And so, the claim is repeated that Trump’s agenda is simply an agenda for the people, and not partisan.

And then Trump started to freelance.

“Although some people say it is,” he said, without looking at the prompter. “Every once in a while it does become that way, right?” ...

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