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President Trump on Monday escalated a feud with a veteran Democratic lawmaker who called for aggressive protests of administration officials, warning Rep. Maxine Waters of California to “Be careful what you wish for Max!” even as leaders in both parties cautioned against increasingly caustic political rhetoric.Trump’s message, conveyed on Twitter, stood in sharp contrast to a call for civility by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose ouster from a Virginia restaurant sparked a furious debate over whether opponents should take out their political frustrations against administration officials in their private lives.Former Vermont governor Howard Dean (D), who ran for president in 2004 amid antiwar fervor in the party and later served as national party chair, dismissed the latest controversy as a “Beltway game” — and predicted that Democrats would do well this year because of bigger questions facing voters.

“It’s not about Maxine Waters, it’s now about the survival of the country,” Dean said in an interview. “Trump’s provocations are irrelevant, and more people are just not interested in them, especially people under 40. They’re focused on building a different kind of America that embraces people and doesn’t appeal to hate.”WP
President Trump on Monday escalated a feud with a veteran Democratic lawmaker who called for aggressive protests of administration officials, warning Rep. Maxine Waters of California to “Be careful what you wish for Max!” even as leaders in both parties cautioned against increasingly caustic political rhetoric.Trump’s message, conveyed on Twitter, stood in sharp contrast to a call for civility by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose ouster from a Virginia restaurant sparked a furious debate over whether opponents should take out their political frustrations against administration officials in their private lives.Former Vermont governor Howard Dean (D), who ran for president in 2004 amid antiwar fervor in the party and later served as national party chair, dismissed the latest controversy as a “Beltway game” — and predicted that Democrats would do well this year because of bigger questions facing voters. “It’s not about Maxine Waters, it’s now about the survival of the country,” Dean said in an interview. “Trump’s provocations are irrelevant, and more people are just not interested in them, especially people under 40. They’re focused on building a different kind of America that embraces people and doesn’t appeal to hate.”WP read more read less

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