These key themes from Trump's 2016 victory are emerging again as the pillars of his 2020 campaign, centred on a foreboding, populist message.
But Trump's dark warnings pose a central conundrum for his re-election effort: Can he win the White House a second time by railing against the very problems he promised to fix?
Late last month, for example, Trump over-ruled several top advisers when he directed the Justice Department to sign on to a lawsuit aimed at throwing out the health-care law known as Obamacare, declaring that Republicans would write their own replacement."We'll have a plan that is far better than Obamacare," Trump vowed at the time, adding that Republicans would "soon be known as the party of health care.
The climb-down came after Republican leaders and business executives warned him that shutting down the border would be catastrophic for the economy. Trump allies also point to the President's unlikely victory over more polished politicians in the 2016 Republican primary and his electoral college win against Hillary Clinton as evidence of his political acumen.
"What we also see quite often with Trump is talk that he's going to do something that he doesn't ultimately follow through on," Heye said. "But the base still gives him credit for starting that conversation."On immigration, however, there are signs that some of Trump's most ardent supporters are becoming disenchanted with the President's failure to improve the worsening situation at the border after more than two years in office.
"I don't think anyone should ever doubt the President's sincerity when talking about fixing the immigration system," Murtaugh said.The growing field of Democrats campaigning to make Trump a one-term president sees his hard-line immigration views as out of line with moderate voters. Several have highlighted Trump's family separation policy and accused him of racism.
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