News / World by Press Association 18/07/2019, 11:27 am Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter US President Donald Trump has placed racial animus at the centre of his re-election campaign. Every successful modern presidential campaign has been built on the notion of addition, winning over voters beyond core supporters. But Mr Trump has chosen division on the belief that the polarised country he leads will simply choose sides over issues like race. He has intensified his attacks, blasting four young congresswomen of colour during a rally in Greenville, North Carolina. The crowd responded by chanting, “Send her back!” echoing Mr Trump’s weekend tweet in which he said the congresswomen, all American citizens, should “go back” to the countries from which they came. “I do think I am winning the political fight,” Mr Trump declared at the White House. “I think I am winning it by a lot.” Not since George Wallace’s campaign in 1968 has a presidential candidate — and certainly not an incumbent president — put racial polarisation at the centre of his call to voters. Though Mr Trump’s comments generated outrage and even a resolution of condemnation in the House, the president and his… Read full this story
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