It's not just Baltimore; Trump is running against America's cities
WASHINGTON - He was born in Queens and lives on Fifth Avenue. His skyscrapers dot city skylines on several continents. But President Donald Trump is increasingly intent on disparaging urban areas, depicting them as blighted and overrun by criminals and homelessness - all part of a divisive reelection strategy heading into 2020.
Trump's denigration of cities is part of an effort to animate a base of rural, mostly white supporters while depressing minority turnout in places like Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia - a repeat of the two-pronged strategy that helped him to a surprising electoral college victory in 2016 and could be determinative again four years later.
"No one has paid a higher price for the far-left destructive agenda than Americans living in our
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