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Forget 'MAGA' or 'KAG,' Trump just tweeted Hillary's 2016 slogan

President returns to campaign trail Thursday afterward Biden puts in improved debate performance

Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and then-Vice President Joe Biden conduct a campaign rally at Riverfront Sports in Scranton, Pa., on Aug. 15, 2016. The slogan in the background showed up in a Trump tweet Thursday morning. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Then-Autonomous presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and and so-Vice President Joe Biden conduct a campaign rally at Riverfront Sports in Scranton, Pa., on Aug. fifteen, 2016. The slogan in the background showed up in a Trump tweet Thursday morning. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Curlicue Phone call)

Posted August 1, 2019 at 9:22am

Forget "Make America Cracking Once more." And perhaps it's fourth dimension to put a stop on those "Go on America Great" ball caps and T-shirts. President Donald Trump might be poised to recycle a former foe's campaign slogan.

The former reality television star volition return to the trail Thursday evening with a 7 p.chiliad. EDT rally in Cincinnati, eager to endeavor again securing Ohio as he seeks to rebuild his 2016 Balloter Higher win. And when he does, expect the usual survey to ask his supporters if "MAGA" should be replaced past "KAG."

The in-venue contest of which cheers are louder rarely is decisive, and Trump never definitively states which slogan he prefers.

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In fact, over the final six days alone, the president has fired off tweets using autograph for both his 2016 "Make" slogan and the "Keep" one he has yet to formally declare the theme of his reelection bid. It often seems he plans to use both.

But then came a curious moment following the 2nd nighttime of the 2nd 2020 Democratic primary contend.

Trump went to Twitter a couple times during and after the Detroit fence, which saw former Vice President Joe Biden turn in a steadier performance while several other candidates too appeared to take solid nights. In one mail, the president used both slogans he has floated for months on the trail.

"The people on the stage tonight, and last, were not those that will either Make America Great Again or Keep America Great!" Trump wrote in a two-tweet thread, also referring to the Democrats' Tuesday night fence, necessary to fit the nearly 2 dozen candidates on i phase.

Only he ended that brusque thread with this: "We will only abound bigger, better and stronger TOGETHER!"

Wait a second, right? Political observers have indeed seen the last two words before — for months and months in 2016. It was the campaign slogan of the 2016 Autonomous nominee, old Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Some former Clinton aides noticed immediately.

Jesse Ferguson, a press secretary for her 2016 White House bid, quote-tweeted the president by using the aforementioned capitalization his former boss did on campaign signs, merchandise and event backdrops.

The president in recent weeks has changed his tune after for years saying he defeated Clinton in part because she was a subpar candidate whom he outworked in crucial swing states similar Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin. Now, however, he calls her a "fighter," saying none of the 2020 candidates accept her grit and toughness.

Trump has yet to hitting the entrada trail in earnest, simply aides say he will busily jet beyond the country side by side year as he seeks a second term. As he prepares his strategy, the president increasingly focuses on Biden equally the most likely candidate to sally from the crowded Democratic field.

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"I am watching. I think, right at present, it volition exist 'Sleepy Joe.' I think. I experience he'll limp across the line. That's what I think," Trump told reporters Tuesday every bit he left the White Business firm for an consequence in Williamsburg, Virginia. "And so what I remember doesn't mean annihilation, merely I know the other people. I know him. I think he's off his game by a lot. But, I think, personally, I remember it's going to be 'Sleepy Joe.'"

Trump has repeatedly used that nickname for Biden, whom multiple polls give a nearly double-digit pb over the president in a hypothetical caput-to-head race, to suggest the 76-year-onetime erstwhile vice president and senator is too onetime to be commander in principal.

For his part, Biden over again on Midweek evening fabricated a pitch to voters that he is the lone 2020 candidate who can oust Trump from the Oval Office.

"This most consequential election any 1 of y'all has ever participated in," Biden said. "Iv more years of Donald Trump will go down as an abnormality. Hard to overcome the damage he's done. We can overcome information technology."