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2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Published February 10, 2020
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Trump, looking to ‘shake up the Dems a little bit,’ hits ‘mumbling’ Pelosi in rally ahead of key NH primary

By Gregg Re | Fox News

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President Trump said he was looking to get under Democrats’ skin Monday with a rally in New Hampshire on the eve of the state’s first-in-the-nation primaries, and he wasted little time – quickly reliving his dramatic State of the Union speech with a thinly veiled shot at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
“I had somebody behind me who was mumbling terribly,” Trump mused, as chants of “Lock her up!” broke out.
“Very distracting. Very distracting,” Trump continued. “I’m speaking, and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me. There was a little anger back there. We’re the ones who should be angry, not them.”
Trump sped through his remarks unusually quickly, so that he could head to Dover Air Force base in Delaware to participate in the dignified transfer of the remains of two soldiers killed recently in Afghanistan.
The president thanked Pelosi for giving Republicans the highest poll numbers they’ve “ever” had – or at least since 2005, according to a recent Gallup survey. Pelosi, who ripped up Trump’s State of the Union address as soon as it concluded, was widely criticized especially after videos emerged showing she had visibly torn some of the pages in advance.
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Trump employs lyrics for Al Wilson’s ‘The Snake’ as allegory for illegal immigration
“Nine months from now, we are going to retake the House of Representatives, we are going to hold the Senate, and we are going to keep the White House,” Trump said to thunderous applause. “We have so much more enthusiasm, it’s not even close. They’re all fighting each other. … They don’t know what they’re doing; they can’t even count their votes.”
Perhaps worst of all, Trump said, liberals and the “fake news” media simply “can’t take a joke.”
Later, he again jabbed the Democrats over the Iowa caucus debacle and the party’s treatment of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.: “The Democratic Party wants to run your health care, but they can’t even run a caucus in Iowa. … Actually, I think they’re trying to take it away from Bernie again. They’re doing it to you again, Bernie! They’re doing it to you again.”

President Trump speaking at his campaign rally Monday in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Huge crowds gathered in the overflow viewing area outside the packed Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) arena in Manchester, which can hold approximately 11,000.
Earlier in the day, Trump retweeted a post from ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl: “Cold rain, snow and lots of Trump supporters. Despite the miserable weather, there are already more people lining up outside the venue of @realDonaldTrump‘s rally tonight than you see at most of the events for the Democratic candidates. Some have been out here all night.”
At the rally, Trump remarked to applause, “We have more in this arena and outside this arena than all of the other candidates, meaning the Democrats, put together and multiplied by five. … We have never had an empty seat from the day your future First Lady and I came down the escalator.”
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Turning to illegal immigration and “insane” sanctuary cities – just minutes after Attorney General Bill Barr announced sweeping new sanctions against sanctuary cities – the president boasted that his administration had built over 100 miles of wall on the southern border.
“You have to see – you wouldn’t believe it, when that wall goes up, the numbers change like magic,” Trump said. “Two things never change: a wheel and a wall.”
The president then delivered a dramatic reading of a 1968 Al Wilson song that he used as an allegory to illegal immigration, in which a “tender woman” let a snake inside her home, only to suffer a “vicious bite.”
“‘Now I’m going to die,’” the woman complained. “‘Shut up, silly woman,’ said the reptile with a grin; ‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.’” Attendees both inside and outside the SNHU arena erupted in cheers.

President Donald Trump arrives at SNHU Arena to speak at a campaign rally, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Mexican government has played a key role in keeping illegal border crossings down, the president added, noting that he had pressured the country to do so under the threat of tariffs last year. Washington Democrats, by contrast, “want to let anyone into our country” and “give them free health care” and “free education,” Trump said.
That was a reference to a recent presidential debate, when all candidates on stage seemingly endorsed the idea of paying for illegal immigrants’ health expenses.
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Additionally, Trump again honored House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., saying he looked “better now than when he got shot” in 2017 by a radical Sanders supporter while playing softball. Capitol Police officers took down the attacker as Scalise tried to crawl away, in a dramatic moment that Trump recounted last week at the White House.
The president, as he did during the State of the Union, further touted the historically low unemployment numbers for the country and minority groups specifically, as the crowd screamed, “USA!” Democrats’ sweeping and expensive policies and regulations, Trump argued, would crush the stock market and reverse the ongoing economic boom.
“The Democratic Party wants to run your health care, but they can’t even run a caucus in Iowa.”
— President Trump
“To support working families, we have reduced the cost of child care, expanded paid leave, and given 40 million American families an average of $2,200 more in their pockets thanks to the Republican child tax credit,” Trump asserted. “We are the party of equal opportunity for all Americans.”
He added, “While the extreme left has been wasting America’s time with this vile hoax, we’ve been killing terrorists, creating jobs, raising wages, enacting fair trade deals, securing our borders, and lifting up citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed!”

Supporters waiting for the start of President Trump’s rally Monday in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In an apparent flub as he attempted to appeal to the hometown crowd, Trump then seemingly confused the pivotal Revoluntary War site of Concord, Mass., with the less notable Concord, N.H.
“I love Concord. … That’s the same Concord we read about all the time, right?” Trump asked. In fact, the Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred in Massachusetts.
The rally was part of a tried-and-tested tactic for Trump: scheduling counter-programming to divert attention from the Democrats’ debates and other major moments, keeping him in the spotlight and building supporters’ enthusiasm in the months before Election Day.
Though it may not be the same show of force as last week, when dozens of Trump’s surrogates, including officials from across all levels of government, flooded the state of Iowa, the Trump campaign made its presence known in New Hampshire before the state’s primaries.
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Vice President Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser, got to the state ahead of the president to do some campaigning.
Also being deployed by the president’s re-election campaign: Scalise, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and Trump’s former campaign manager, New Hampshire resident Corey Lewandowski.
Still, the marquee event has been Trump’s rally, and supporters started lining up for it Sunday. Images of bundled-up supporters camped outside the SNHU Arena in Manchester broke through the news coverage of the Democrats’ primary.
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The audience cheers as President Donald Trump arrives on stage during a campaign rally, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
New Hampshire has always loomed large in Trump’s political lore as the first nominating contest he won during 2016’s heated Republican primaries.
He was about to take the stage at a rally in Manchester that October
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Unfavorable polls!
Here Comes the Twitter Tantrum: Latest 2020 Poll Shows Top 6 Democrats Shivving Trump
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 6:12 PM
If you’ve been studying Donald Trump for any period of time, you know that despite claiming to have one of the “best temperaments” of “anybody that’s ever run for the office of president,” it takes very little to set him off. Examples of things that have inspired volcanic rage in the former real estate developer include but are certainly not limited to Academy Award acceptance speeches, Snoop Dogg, Nordstrom, the Kentucky Derby, wind turbines, ads about his weight, toilets, showers, sinks, lightbulbs, and dishwashers. So the news that a new poll has the top six Democrats all beating him in a general election will almost certainly inspire the sort of outburst typically reserved for Nancy Pelosi, if not dogs and maps (his true foes).
According to the latest Quinnipiac national poll, among registered voters, Trump would lose the 2020 election to Mike Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg if it were held today. For a guy who seemingly only quakes in fear at the idea of going head-to-head with Bloomberg or Biden, and who is all but begging voters to nominate the senator from Vermont, that’s not great news!
The poll also puts Trump’s favorability underwater, with just 42% of registered voters reporting a favorable opinion of him and 55% thinking he sucks (or reporting an “unfavorable” view of him). Notably, this is his best favorability rating since March 7, 2017. Anyway, stay tuned for the 12-alarm meltdown!
Trump praises China’s execution of drug dealers
The president, who is currently campaigning on his alleged support of criminal justice reform, said at the White House Monday that he’d love to tackle drug issues in the U.S. by taking a page from China’s playbook, where drug dealers are executed following a “fair but quick trial.”
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“States with a very powerful death penalty on drug dealers don’t have a drug problem,” Trump said during an event with governors. “I don’t know that our country is ready for that, but if you look throughout the world, the countries with a powerful death penalty—death penalty—with a fair but quick trial, they have very little if any drug problem. That includes China.” This isn’t the first time Trump has praised an authoritarian nation for sentencing drug dealers to death. In 2017, he congratulated Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, whose “shoot to kill” policy against drug dealers had resulted in at least 7,000 people being killed for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.”
Nothing to see here, just the DOJ setting up a special hotline for Rudy Giuliani’s conspiracy theories
This definitely sounds legitimate and in no way another abuse of the president’s power:
Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged Monday that the Justice Department would evaluate material that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, had gathered from Ukrainian sources claiming to have damaging information about former vice president Joe Biden and his family—though Barr and other officials suggested Giuliani was being treated no differently than any tipster. At a news conference on an unrelated case, Barr confirmed an assertion made Sunday by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) that the Justice Department had “created a process that Rudy could give information and they would see if it’s verified.” Barr said he had established an “intake process in the field” so that the Justice Department and intelligence agencies could scrutinize information they were given.
A Justice Department official said Giuliani had “recently” shared information with federal law enforcement officials through the process described by Barr. Two people familiar with the matter said the information is being routed to the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh. That Giuliani would have a direct pipeline to the Justice Department for providing information on a political rival of Trump raised fears among some legal analysts that federal law enforcement was being conscripted into doing campaign work for the president. The matter is complicated, too, because Giuliani is under investigation by the Justice Department. That case already has produced campaign finance charges against two of his associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who helped in Giuliani’s Ukraine-related pursuits.
Parnas and Fruman have both pleaded not guilty. Giuliani did not return a message from the Post seeking a request for comment, probably being too busy getting his important papers and cocktail-napkin scribbles re: Biden out of a storage unit in Queens.
Kellyanne Conway casually admits more people will probably be fired for retaliating against Trump
What, you thought he was just going to let people testify against him and get away with it, jobs and kneecaps intact?
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday hinted that additional officials could be forced out of their roles following the ousters last week of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland—both high-profile witnesses in the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. Asked during an interview on Fox & Friends whether there will be more dismissals in the days to come, Conway said, “maybe,” and sought to defend Vindman’s removal from a detail at the National Security Council. Vindman’s twin brother Yevgeny, who had served as a senior lawyer on the NSC, was also forced out of the White House on Friday. “In the case of the Vindman brothers, you remember, they were detailed here,” and remain “employed today,” Conway said, agreeing with host Steve Doocy’s assessment that the two former NSC staffers “didn’t get fired” but “just got relocated.”
You know, like how people who cooperate with the government against the mob don’t get their legs cut off, they just have them relocated from their bodies to a dumpster off of the New Jersey Turnpike.
“They are working at the Army, where they were. They were detailed to the NSC. This is typical,” Conway said. “I’ve had detailees on my small staff. This is very typical in a White House to have a detailee for a temporary period of time who then returns to what their full-time job is.” Conway did not explain why Vindman’s detail to the NSC ended on Friday when it was previously slated to finish in July.
As for Sondland, Conway suggested that the former U.S. envoy to the European Union should be grateful he was given his position in the first place after not just showing disloyalty to Trump vis-à-vis the whole Ukraine affair but failing to pledge his firstborn to the president the day he announced his candidacy for office. “He wrote a big check to the inauguration but wasn’t really there before the president improbably, unsurprisingly, won, for people like that,” Conway said of Sondland, who was named to his post after donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration committee. In other words, cutting a huge check for Team Trump, which is made up of cheap whores, will certainly get you a foot in the door but blind loyalty must be adhered to at all costs. Just something for would-be donors to remember about should there be a second term.
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