CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRATION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With a somber trip to Pittsburgh to visit victims of a synagogue shooting behind him, President Trump flew to one of his favorite places in the world — Florida — on Wednesday [10-31-8] to host another one of his high-decibel political rallies. On Thursday [11-1-18], Mr. Trump will be in Missouri. Before the week is out, he will hit West Virginia, Montana and Indiana, all part of an 11-rally blitz leading to the midterm elections on Tuesday [10-30-18]. That is fast, even for him. For Mr. Trump, the next five days feature battleground states where the Republican Party’s hold on the House is in peril and come on the heels of a high-profile Twitter slap at Speaker Paul Ryan, who shot down Mr. Trump’s latest promise to issue an executive order denying birthright citizenship to people born to undocumented immigrants.”
–Katie Rogers, “In Florida Rally, Trump Calls Constitutional Citizenship Protections ‘a Crazy Policy’,” The New York Times online, October 31, 2018