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US House votes to condemn Trump's 'racist comments'

US Representatives Ayanna Pressley (R), Rashida Tlaib (second from R), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (third from R) and Ilhan Omar (L)

The US House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority Democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as the president denied accusations of racism.

Top Republican leaders rallied around Trump, but four members of the president's party voted with the 235 Democrats to condemn him for "racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color."

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