Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump kicked off the 2020 campaign season Monday in the border city of El Paso, Texas, just as negotiators on Capitol Hill appeared to have reached a deal to keep the government fully open past Friday's deadline.

Trump largely demurred on weighing in on the deal's emerging details, telling the raucous crowd he had skipped being briefed on it in favor of delivering his remarks to them. He spoke for about an hour and 15 minutes, previewing some of his campaign messaging against "socialism" and zeroing in on a specific potential 2020 contender: Beto O'Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso.

Trump said congressional Democrats' proposed Green New Deal "sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark."

Trump brushed off policy proposals from Democrats, saying the push from progressive lawmakers "all has to do with 2020 and the election"

"But I really don't like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of 'let's hop a train to California,' or 'you're not allowed to own cows anymore!' " he added, referring to the resolution championed by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats.

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