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Politics : Trump Victory in the Republican Primary
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From: zax12/27/2015 1:53:30 PM
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Obama’s team says the GOP earned Donald Trump
Loyalists say that after two terms of obstruction, Republicans are getting the anger candidate their rhetoric created.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere

Updated 12/27/16 11:17 AM EST

politico.com


President Barack Obama is expected in the new year to speak out more against Donald Trump. | Getty

Inside the White House, poetic justice looks a lot like Donald Trump.

Past and present aides to President Barack Obama are gloating that a Republican leadership they say defined itself by blustery opposition — and used it to win the House, then the Senate, and stand in the White House’s way at every turn — is getting devoured by a candidate personifying the anger agenda.

Obama insiders would rather have immigration reform signed than lament knowingly on Sunday talk shows that the Republicans will keep losing elections until they deal with the issue. They’d rather have a longer-term approach to government spending, or more of the entitlement and tax reform deals Obama said he was eager to cut.

But on everything from guns to reproductive health to opening up Cuba, Obama’s team says it has been battling for years the very politics that paved the way for Trump’s ascendance this election cycle.

“It’s not so much a reaction to Obama,” said one person familiar with the president’s thinking about the Trump phenomenon. “It’s more of a reaction to their strategy that, ‘We’re just going to be antithetical to everything [Obama] stands for.’”

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