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Forget 'MAGA' or 'KAG,' Trump just tweeted Hillary's 2022 slogan

President returns to entrada trail Thursday after Biden puts in improved contend operation

Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and then-Vice President Joe Biden conduct a campaign rally at Riverfront Sports in Scranton, Pa., on Aug. 15, 2016. The slogan in the background showed up in a Trump tweet Thursday morning. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and then-Vice President Joe Biden bear a campaign rally at Riverfront Sports in Scranton, Pa., on Aug. 15, 2016. The slogan in the background showed up in a Trump tweet Th morning. (Photograph By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Phone call)

Posted August 1, 2022 at 9:22am

Forget "Make America Great Again." And mayhap information technology's fourth dimension to put a stop on those "Keep America Smashing" ball caps and T-shirts. President Donald Trump might be poised to recycle a former foe's entrada slogan.

The former reality television star will return to the trail Thursday evening with a 7 p.m. EDT rally in Cincinnati, eager to try over again securing Ohio equally he seeks to rebuild his 2022 Electoral Higher win. And when he does, expect the usual survey to ask his supporters if "MAGA" should be replaced by "KAG."

The in-venue contest of which thanks are louder rarely is decisive, and Trump never definitively states which slogan he prefers.

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In fact, over the last half-dozen days alone, the president has fired off tweets using shorthand for both his 2022 "Make" slogan and the "Go on" i he has nonetheless to formally declare the theme of his reelection bid. It often seems he plans to use both.

Simply then came a curious moment following the 2nd nighttime of the second 2022 Democratic chief contend.

Trump went to Twitter a couple times during and after the Detroit debate, which saw former Vice President Joe Biden turn in a steadier performance while several other candidates besides appeared to take solid nights. In one post, the president used both slogans he has floated for months on the trail.

"The people on the stage tonight, and last, were not those that volition either Make America Smashing Again or Keep America Great!" Trump wrote in a two-tweet thread, also referring to the Democrats' Tuesday night debate, necessary to fit the virtually two dozen candidates on one stage.

Simply he concluded that short thread with this: "We volition only abound bigger, better and stronger TOGETHER!"

Wait a 2nd, right? Political observers take indeed seen the terminal 2 words before — for months and months in 2016. It was the campaign slogan of the 2022 Democratic nominee, former Secretary of Land Hillary Clinton.

Some former Clinton aides noticed immediately.

Jesse Ferguson, a press secretarial assistant for her 2022 White Firm bid, quote-tweeted the president by using the aforementioned capitalization his one-time boss did on entrada signs, trade and upshot backdrops.

The president in recent weeks has inverse his tune afterward for years saying he defeated Clinton in part because she was a subpar candidate whom he outworked in crucial swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin. Now, however, he calls her a "fighter," saying none of the 2022 candidates have her dust and toughness.

Trump has yet to hit the campaign trail in earnest, just aides say he volition busily jet across the country next year equally he seeks a second term. As he prepares his strategy, the president increasingly focuses on Biden as the virtually probable candidate to emerge from the crowded Democratic field.

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"I am watching. I think, right at present, it will exist 'Sleepy Joe.' I think. I feel he'll limp across the line. That'southward what I recall," Trump told reporters Tuesday as he left the White Business firm for an event in Williamsburg, Virginia. "So what I think doesn't mean anything, but I know the other people. I know him. I think he'due south off his game past a lot. Only, I think, personally, I think it'due south going to be 'Sleepy Joe.'"

Trump has repeatedly used that nickname for Biden, whom multiple polls give a nearly double-digit pb over the president in a hypothetical head-to-head race, to suggest the 76-year-old sometime vice president and senator is besides one-time to be commander in principal.

For his part, Biden again on Wednesday evening made a pitch to voters that he is the lone 2022 candidate who can oust Trump from the Oval Office.

"This nigh consequential election whatever one of you has ever participated in," Biden said. "Four more years of Donald Trump will go downwards as an abnormality. Hard to overcome the damage he'south done. We tin overcome it."