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In border battle, White House needs to clean up its messaging

By Emily Jashinsky

Published June 19, 2018 4:45pm ET

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In border battle, White House needs to clean up its messaging — President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen speak together as they walk across the South Lawn to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. and then onto Yuma, Ariz. to visit the U.S. border with Mexico and attend a rally in Phoenix with President Donald Trump. | (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Media uproar over the Trump administration’s zero tolerance family separations policy shows no signs of slowing down, and polling has found the public is not supportive. That’s a bad recipe going into the midterms for the GOP.

Amid all this, the administration is welcome to lob (often accurate) charges of media bias. But complaints about the press ring hollow when you’re struggling to get your own story straight.

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