Trump drifts further from GOP orthodoxy in bid to beat Harris
By
Naomi Lim
and
David Sivak
August 31, 2024 8:00 am
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In 2004, real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump told CNN that he “in many cases” considered himself more of a Democrat than a Republican.
Fast forward 20 years later, and the former president is once again navigating a political middle ground that is as much about defeating Vice President Kamala Harris as it is leaving a permanent mark on his adopted home, the Republican Party.
Over the past several months, Trump has made a rhetorical shift, dropping the label “conservative” in favor of describing his politics as “commonsense.” In March, he explicitly said he is “not conservative.”
Trump has taken that label to describe the GOP as a whole, telling a crowd in Arizona a week ago, “You say what you want — it’s nice to say conservative, but really, we’re the party of common sense.”
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