Trump: If Democrats can beat me with the Green New Deal, 'I deserve to lose'
by Katelyn Caralle
| April 02, 2019 09:01 PM
President Trump said Tuesday he doesn’t want Republicans to kill the Green New Deal yet because he wants to be able to run against it in his 2020 reelection campaign.
“We will have to do something [about the Green New Deal]. But don’t do it too early please, don’t kill it, because we want to be able to run against it,†Trump told Republicans at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday night. “If they beat me with the Green New Deal, I deserve to lose.â€
Trump said he’s going to say the Green New Deal is “a wonderful thing†so he will get the opportunity to run against it in the 2020 elections.
Trump said several veteran Democrats are standing behind the Green New Deal, and its co-sponsor freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., because “they’re petrified of her.â€
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