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    As Trump doubles down on racist comments, House to vote on condemning them

    by Noah Bierman and Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Jul 16, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump delivered some of the most incendiary comments of his presidency on Monday, signaling that he intends to build his reelection bid as much around divisive racial and cultural issues as on low unemployment and economic growth.

    The rhetoric sparked unusual pushback from several Republicans, and led to a dramatic clash in which four first-year House Democrats - all women of color - denounced Trump's language as "xenophobic," "bigoted" and unworthy of a sitting president.

    Earlier, Trump had vilified the four elected members of Congress as "people who hate our country."

    "They hate it, I think, with a passion," he told reporters.

    The House is planning to condemn Trump's comments as "racist" in a resolution to be voted upon as soon as Tuesday. The four-page resolution praises immigrants and condemns Trump's comments, which have "legitimized and

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