Susan Collins to Trump: Take down the tweet

Sen. Susan Collins, a key Senate Republican moderate, condemned Trump’s Twitter war with House liberal’s in which he told them to “go back … from where they came.”

“I disagree strongly with many of the views and comments of some of the far-left members of the House Democratic Caucus — especially when it comes to their views on socialism, their anti-Semitic rhetoric, and their negative comments about law enforcement,” Collins, of Maine, who is up for reelection in 2020. “But the President’s tweet that some Members of Congress should go back to the ‘places from which they came’ was way over the line, and he should take that down.”

Collins is one of only a handful of Republicans to comment on Trump’s tweets. Trump has not backed down from his original tweet Sunday in which he called on four minority, ultra-liberal House freshmen Democrats to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.”

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