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Robert Tait in Washington

Democrats seize on Trump’s ‘horrible city’ remark about Milwaukee for ads

a man in a blue suit and blue tie speaks into a microphone
Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

US Democrats have seized on Donald Trump’s dismissal of Milwaukee as “a horrible city” by trumpeting the unflattering description on advertising hoardings – a month before the city in the swing state of Wisconsin hosts the Republican national convention, where the former president is set to be the party’s presidential nominee this November.

Trump reportedly made the comment in a meeting with congressional Republicans in Washington on Thursday, his first return to Capitol Hill since extremist supporters broke into Congress on 6 January 2021, to try to stop Joe Biden’s victory over him.

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