Is Trump still the same guy who won in November?

Published October 9, 2017 4:01am ET



Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich likes to say that there are two Donald Trumps. “I’ve said this publicly, there’s a big Trump and a little Trump,” Gingrich said on ABC’s “This Week” before last year’s election. “The big Trump is a historic figure. The big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination.”

Almost a year after Trump also beat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to become president of the United States, some of his most ardent supporters worry that there are indeed two Trumps: the one they fell in love with during the 2016 campaign and the one sitting in the Oval Office.

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