President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.
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President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally on the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
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President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally on the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
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Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks to a crowd inside a ball park throughout the road from the place President Donald Trump was holding a rally contained in the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.
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President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally on the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
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President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally on the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
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President Donald Trump arrives to talk at a rally on the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
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Individuals reply as President Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Trump is in Texas to try to flip the controversy over a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border again to his political benefit.
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Individuals look ahead to former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke to reach on stage at an out of doors rally throughout from the place President Donald Trump was holding a rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.
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President Donald Trump gestures to the group as he speaks throughout a rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.
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Isa Casillas, left, and Janelle Hernandez, of Las Cruces, N.M., participate in a march and rally exterior the El Paso County Coliseum, the place President Trump was scheduled to talk in a rally, in El Paso, Texas, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.
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EL PASO, Texas — President Donald Trump informed supporters gathered for a rally within the border city of El Paso, Texas, that he is not giving up on his pledge to construct a border wall with Mexico.
The president continued to insist Monday evening that the barrier separating El Paso from Mexico had made town safer, a declare not supported by federal statistics.
Close by, former El Paso congressman Guess O’Rourke, a attainable candidate for the White Home, informed these at a counter rally that partitions trigger extra issues than they remedy.
The rallies served as a preview of the heated yearslong struggle over the path of the nation. And so they made clear that Trump’s long-promised border wall is certain to play an outsized position within the 2020 presidential race.