WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has stepped up his campaign to downplay four liberal women's deputies and described them as not American at a noisy rally, signaling that these attacks will form an important part of his strategy for re-election in 2020.

Although Democrats have criticized his comments on four Democratic women in Congress who belong to different minorities as racially discriminating, Trump has continued to sharply criticize women deputies, saying they can leave the country if his policies on issues such as immigration and defense of Israel do not appeal to them.

"Those women deputies, their statements are helping to create a dangerous radical left," the Republican president said on Wednesday, rattling the crowd at the rally in North Carolina, a key state for him.

Trump said in the weekend's tweets that the four progressive female candidates known as the "team" - Elhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandra Ocacio-Cortez of New York, Rachida Tlib of Michigan and Eiana Bresley of Massachusetts - "return" from where they came from, although they are Americans Three of them were born in the United States.

"I have a proposal tonight for extremists who are full of hatred and are constantly trying to tear our country apart, they have no good words to say, so I say if they do not like them, let them leave, let them leave," Trump said in North Carolina yesterday.

Tramb and his supporters have won a second term (Reuters)

Statements and risk
"The Democrats are now the high tax party, high crime rates, open borders, late abortion, fanaticism and division, the Republican Party is the party of all Americans and the values ​​of Americans," Trump said.

While Trump's remarks are stirring up his electoral base, he risks fueling ethnic and ideological tensions by encouraging divisions in the country.

Trump is betting more than ever on the mobilization of white voters. "This is a political maneuver for Trump in the first place," the four Democratic female deputies told CBS.

"It's a way of diverting attention to avoid issues that really matter to Americans," said Anna Presley.

Controversial tweets do not seem to affect Trump's popularity among Republican voters, but by five points to 72 percent, according to the Ipsos poll conducted Monday and Tuesday.