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The comment came during a discussion on "The View" about President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE's tweets aimed at Rep. Elijah Cummings Elijah Eugene CummingsBlack GOP candidate accuses Behar of wearing black face in heated interview Overnight Health Care: US won't join global coronavirus vaccine initiative | Federal panel lays out initial priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution | NIH panel: 'Insufficient data' to show treatment touted by Trump works House Oversight Democrats to subpoena AbbVie in drug pricing probe MORE (D-Md.) calling his Maryland district a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess."

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Democrats have attacked the tweets as racist, though the president has denied that is the case.

“As someone who is, I think, one of only three Republicans or conservatives on this entire network, I always am concerned about the next generation coming up. And young people that are interested in conservative ideals only see this. They only see race-baiting. They only see the Trump administration,” McCain said on Monday's episode of the ABC roundtable opinion program.

“What Republicans should be most concerned about right now, well, from my perspective, is what comes next,” she later added. “At a certain point, you’re going to have a bunch of millennials who think the entire Republican Party is ... the person in charge thinks that all communities of color are infested.”

According to a 2018 Pew Research Center study, 57 percent of millennials identify politically as consistently liberal or mostly liberal, while just 12 percent call themselves consistently conservative or mostly conservative.

Trump's tweets about Cummings and his descriptions of the lawmaker's Baltimore district as "disgusting" and "rodent infested" dominated the news cycle over the weekend and have continued to do so into the workweek.

Earlier Monday, the president tweeted that Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power Bernie Sanders: 'This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump stokes fears over November election outcome MORE (I-Vt.) had compared Baltimore to "a Third World country" and declared the senator should be labeled "a Racist" for his remarks.

"Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!" Trump tweeted to his more than 62 million followers.

"Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!" he added.