DEMS/ELECTION/RACISM/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 2016, it was ‘lock her up.’ In 2019, it’s ‘send her back.’ President Donald Trump doubled down on the go-back-to-where-you-came-from trope during a Wednesday rally in Greenville, N.C., laying into the four progressive House members who have styled themselves as the foil to the Republican president. During his first rally since officially relaunching his re-election campaign, Trump spent more of his initial energy focusing on the four new Democratic members — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — than his assorted 2020 presidential opponents. The rally was a campaign distillation of the racist tweets he had sent Sunday [7-14-19] where he insisted the four members ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.’”
–Matthew Choi, “‘Send her back’: Trump batters Dem congresswomen on campaign trail,” Politico, July 17, 2019 11:09 pm