Trump sees bump in GOP approval after weekend tweets against ‘The Squad’

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Republican support for President Trump has increased slightly since Sunday when he tweeted that a group of liberal representatives should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Democrats and some Republicans have slammed the president’s tweets as racist and xenophobic. The Democrat-controlled House passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning Trump for his attack on Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

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