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Philip Bump: Trump is in a never-ending battle against the media because it works

Not everyone who attended President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Thursday was a fervent Trump supporter. Asked how they'd rate Trump on a scale from 1 to 10, some respondents ranked him as low as an 8. (Others, of course, gave him a 10 or an 11 or an 11-and-a-half or a 20.)

There were concerns about his implementation of tariffs, though not from John, 30, a soybean farmer who saw the tariffs as "a small loss for a big-time gain."

There were concerns about his tweeting, though not from Mike Connolly, 33, who said that he "liked his Twitter usage" which was Trump's "only mouthpiece where he can get by everybody else.