NYT: Trump Promotes Caricature of What Conservatives Want

I spoke to Maggie Haberman of the New York Times about President Trump’s often clumsy efforts to articulate what Republicans believe.

Liam Donovan, a Republican strategist and former National Republican Senatorial Committee aide, said that Mr. Trump’s “preternatural ability to sniff out and tap into what Republicans hate” got him to the Oval Office.

“His intimate connection with the base is one of shared grievance,” Mr. Donovan said. “But when it comes to what they’re for, it inevitably comes off like a cartoon version of what a New York billionaire would think conservatives believe.”

Read the full piece here.

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