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Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Donald Trump, says Democrats dont understand Trumps appeal.

Donald Trumps chief strategist Steve Bannon says Democrats just dont understand the president and theyll pay for it at the polls.

Bannon told the Washington Post that Democrats underestimate Trumps appeal. His remarks which come after separate comments to a liberal magazine that left some colleagues stunned were published amid a furor over Trumps response to the violence in Charlottesville. As the Post writes, Democrats reacted with horror at Trumps enthusiasm for memorials to the Confederacy. But Bannon says Trumps critics have got it all wrong.

This past election, the Democrats used every personal attack, including charges of racism, against President Trump, Bannon wrote in an email to the Post. He then won a landslide victory on a straightforward platform of economic nationalism. As long as the Democrats fail to understand this, they will continue to lose. But leftist elites do not value history, so why would they learn from history?

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Charlottesville victims mother wont talk to Trump: The mother of the 32-year-old woman killed in Charlottesville says she hasnt spoken to Trump and isnt planning to. I have no interest in speaking to politicians just to hear them say, Im sorry, said Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, on ABC News. Heyer was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters.

Bro had thanked Trump on Monday in a statement but said she changed her mind after seeing Trump blame both sides for the violence. I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters ... with the KKK and the white supremacists, she said.

Flakes pro-immigrant op-ed: Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who has clashed with Trump, has a New York Times op-ed on Friday titled We need immigrants with skills. But working hard is a skill. In it, Flake reiterates opposition to a Trump-backed proposal that would cut legal immigration by 50%.

The timing of the piece is noteworthy: Trump is scheduled to appear at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, where he may further criticize Flake after calling the senator toxic on Thursday.

Afghanistan meeting at Camp David: Bloomberg reports Trump has summoned his defense and foreign-policy team to Camp David on Friday in an effort to resolve debate about the future of the U.S. role in Afghanistan. Last month, Trump said he wants to know why weve been there for 17 years. Meanwhile, writes Bloomberg, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are backing a proposal to add U.S. troops focused on training Afghan special forces.

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