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Trump looks to use Supreme Court defeats as fuel to energize reelection campaign

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After the Supreme Court dealt him a second blow this week, President Donald Trump sought to transform the losses into political fuel for his reelection…
After the Supreme Court dealt him a second blow this week, President Donald Trump sought to transform the losses into political fuel for his reelection bid.
« Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me? » the president tweeted, glossing over the fact that the rulings came from a conservative-leaning court, to which he has personally appointed two justices.
Blasting the rulings as “horrible & politically charged decisions,” the president said the outcomes prove “We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else.”
“Vote Trump 2020!” Trump tweeted.
In an appeal to his base, the president teased that he will do what he did in the 2016 campaign and again release a list of prospective justices he would appoint to the nation’s highest court if reelected to a second term.

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