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Trump in full campaign mode at Pennsylvania rally | TheHill

posted onMarch 11, 2018
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Article snippet: MORE was in full campaign mode on Saturday at a rally for Republican congressional hopeful Rick Saccone, returning to the bombastic, unrestrained candidate from 2016.  For more than an hour, President Trump railed against the media and skewered his Democratic opponents while endorsing Saccone — a Pennsylvania state Representative facing a tough race in the House special election. "This guy should win easily, and he's going to win easy. You got to know him. He's an extraordinary person. Go out and vote on Tuesday for Rick Saccone," Trump said before leaving the stage in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.  But Trump spent most of the evening touting his own accomplishments since he took office rather than praising Saccone, and even used the rally to unveil his own 2020 campaign slogan: "Keep America Great." Trump celebrated passing tax reform and his tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, and pledged to continue work building a border wall with Mexico.  "The tax bill was so massive, bigger than [Ronald] Reagan, biggest one done," Trump said. It is so big, he added, that "we are calling it tax reform" instead of a tax cut. "This is where a nonpolitician is good. For 40 years they couldn't pass anything," Trump said. Trump also patted himself on the back for his planned meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, who he is expected to meet with by the end of May. The president hit the media over its coverage of the planned meeting, saying the news cycl... Link to the full article to read more

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