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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jan 9, 2019, 04:21 PM Jan 2019

Five takeaways from Trump's Oval Office address

Trump delivered the first Oval Office address of his White House tenure on Tuesday evening, amid an ongoing shutdown battle with Democrats over his proposed border wall.

What were the main takeaways?


Trump did not shift the debate

Some people close to the president had argued that a prime-time televised address would be one way — perhaps the only way — to change the contours of the debate over the shutdown.

That view implicitly recognizes that the White House is on the back foot, with little leverage and with Democrats feeling no serious pressure to compromise.

Nothing Trump said changed that.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/424479-five-takeaways-from-trumps-oval-office-address

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