WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump captured the Republican Party and then the presidency in 2016 as an insurgent intent on disrupting the status quo. Helping further that image, Trump advisers believe, is that his main Democratic foils are all career politicians: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former Vice-President Joe Biden and, yes, Hillary Clinton. “He promised that he’d go to Washington and shake things up, and he certainly has,” said Trump campaign manager Tim Murtaugh. Trump advisers also point to his popularity among white working-class voters, who consider themselves “forgotten Americans” left behind and mocked by elite insiders. Americans acknowledge Trump is a change agent, but they are divided in their views of that change.

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 04:07 UTC