To the many white evangelical voters who make up a big part of his base, President Trump might appear lately to be highlighting his bona fides as a champion of the Jewish people. In a rush of tweets in recent weeks, he has denounced four Democratic congresswomen of color as anti-Semitic and insufficiently supportive of Israel.
But the president's recent Twitter campaign to put Jews and Israel at the center of his attacks on Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) is being greeted very differently by the people he has been appearing to defend.
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