O’Rourke, Trump duel over wall, immigration in possible 2020 preview

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#TIA – At the moment the Trump / Orourke debate is a sideshow but entertaining and worth watching while the main event develops

Potential White House hopeful Beto O’Rourke accused Donald Trump of fear-mongering on Monday and the Republican president mocked the Democrat as a “young man who lost” in dueling rallies that could preview the tenor of the 2020 election campaign.

O’Rourke, who narrowly lost his 2018 bid for a U.S. Senate seat, accused Trump of stoking “false fear” about immigrants and telling “lies” about his hometown El Paso, which Trump said was a dangerous place before it had a border fence.

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