ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump brought back the playbook he used during the leadup to the midterm elections, warning of the dangers of illegal immigration and painting Democrats as radical ‘socialists,’ as he returned to the campaign trail Monday [11-26-18] to try to keep a Mississippi Senate seat in GOP hands. A day after U.S. border agents deployed tear gas on a group of migrants after some tried to charge the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump returned to the campaign scare talk that had largely disappeared following the Nov. 6 midterms. Trump had made the approaching Central American caravan a central issue of the 2018 elections. The president has stressed his desire for bipartisanship in the days since the midterms, when Democrats took control of the House. But on Monday, he painted Democrats as radical and dangerous as he stumped for Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing Democrat Mike Espy in a Tuesday [11-27-18] runoff election that could pad the GOP’s current 52-47 advantage in the Senate.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Sticks With Old Playbook in Return to Campaign Trail,” The New York Times online, November 26, 2018