Trump claims Democratic immigration policy would 'kill us all'

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In typically dramatic fashion, President Trump slammed Democrats and praised Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a campaign rally in Richmond, Kentucky, Saturday night.

"The Democrats have become the party of crime; the Republicans are the party of safety," the president claimed, saying Democratic immigration policy would "open America's borders and turn our country into a friendly sanctuary for murderous thugs from other countries who will kill us all."

McConnell he declared "the greatest leader, in my opinion, in history," praising the Kentucky senator's handling of the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. "There's nobody tougher, there's nobody smarter," Trump said. "He stared down the angry left-wing mob. ... He's better when I'm president than he ever was when anybody else was president."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.