OnPolitics: The campaign that never ended

FROM WASHINGTON AND BEYOND

Friday, June 21

President Donald Trump campaigns in Orlando, Florida, on June 18, 2019.

Trump's campaign is back. Not that it ever left.

"Keep America Great": That's the slogan President Donald Trump unveiled at his official campaign launch this week in Orlando, marking the end of MAGA as we know it - maybe. "I'm sorry, MAGA country," Trump said , referring to the "Make America Great Again" mantra that lost to "Keep America Great" by show of applause.

But Trump felt very 2016 at the Tuesday rally, attacking Hillary Clinton at length and prompting old-school "lock her up" chants. Though it's not like Trump's 2016 campaign ever really ended: He filed for re-election the day of his inauguration and has held several rallies since.

Trump also revived a promise from his very first week in office, vowing to remove "millions" of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. The plan? Trump officials pointed to ICE's acting director, who aims to increase deportations "that will include families." (Related: Several undocumented immigrants fired from the president's golf clubs announced they would speak out against Trump in Orlando before the rally.)

Trump's campaign raised nearly $25 million in the first 24 hours after its Florida kickoff, though a new poll shows Trump losing to both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders i n head-to-head matchups in the state. Trump's own polls don't seem much better: His campaign fired pollsters after reports of internal numbers showing him losing to Biden, too.

A week of racial tensions for Trump and Biden

Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden faced backlash from his own party after claiming he and segregationist senators shared moments of "civility" early in his career, an effort to frame himself as bipartisan at a New York fundraiser. "He never called me 'boy,'" Biden said of Democratic Sen. James Eastland, an avowed segregationist from Mississippi. "He always called me 'son.'" Cory Booker, Biden's Democratic opponent, called on Biden to apologize for not helping to make America "a more inclusive place for black people." Biden refused, shooting back: "Cory should apologize. He knows better."

Trump, meanwhile, was called out by Kamala Harris to watch the new Netflix docuseries on the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens wrongly convicted of assault in 1989. Trump spent $85,000 on an ad that year calling for the execution of the teens, who were later exonerated. Asked this week if he would apologize to the men, Trump declined. "You have people on both sides of that," he said.

Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden addresses patrons and media during a visit to the Stonewall Inn, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in New York.

Bebeto Matthews, AP

This week in Trump:

•	Trump announced plants to meet with China's president, and stocks jumped.
•	Will the U.S. strike back against Iran? Trump says "you'll soon find out."
•	Trump's defense chief pick quit after scrutiny around a domestic dispute.
•	Trump's threatening federal layoffs if Congress won't cut this agency.
•	Hope Hicks reportedly stayed silent when the ex-Trump aide was questioned in a testimony.

This week in 2020 Dems:

•	At the debates: What do Dem voters want to hear about? (Hint: not Trump.)
•	USA TODAY contributor Beto O'Rourke details his new Voting Rights Act.
•	Pete Buttigieg is "almost certain" that the United States has had a gay president.
•	His campaign is facing a test after police in the mayor's town shot a black man.
•	Elizabeth Warren is 'open' to decriminalizing sex work.
•	Here's why Buttigieg is talking foreign policy when few other Dems are.