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Trump strikes an oddly regretful tone after hammering Democrats with 'racist' campaigning
The president's mournful rhetoric on the even of the midterms followed a campaign filled with vitriolic anti-immigration talk and 'racist' ads.
The stage is set for 2020.
After vigorously campaigning for Republicans in the midterms with hardline anti-immigration rhetoric widely seen as racist or extremist, President Donald Trump struck a strangely regretful tone in an interview on the eve of Election Day.
Trump has deployed 5,000 troops, some of whom appeared in combat gear, to the US-Mexico border while appearing to muse about having them shoot immigrants.
Trump released an anti-immigration ad against the Democrats that was so racially charged it prompted an unprecedented media response, with Facebook, NBC, Fox, and CNN refusing to air it.
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Trump gave speeches branding the Democrats as radicalized socialists hoping to take away lawfully-owned guns from US citizens and open the borders to immigrants he called "invaders," making false or unfounded claims along the way.
But with the Republicans' complete grip on government power poised to slip from Trump's hands as polling aggregators give Democrats an 80% chance of winning the House of Representatives, he seemed to regret his tone.
Trump seems sorry
President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Iowa on October 9.
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Asked in an interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group if he had any regrets from his first two years in office, Trump pointed straight at his own words and actions.
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