<P> Donald Trump has used the phrase repeatedly, both during his presidential campaign and as president . In a July 2018 campaign rally, he said that "The Democratic Party sounds too good so I don't want to use that, OK?" He added, "I call it the Democrat Party . It sounds better rhetorically ." At a September 2018 rally he said, falsely, that "When you see' Democratic Party,' it's wrong . There's no name,' Democratic Party ."' </P> <P> According to Media Matters for America, the "ungrammatical" and "partisan" use of the phrase Democrat Party has been replicated by the Associated Press, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune . </P> <P> National Public Radio (NPR) directed its staff in 2010 to use the adjective Democratic rather than Democrat . According to Ron Elving, NPR's senior Washington editor, it was the organization's policy to call parties by the name that they use to refer to themselves, saying: "We should not refer to Democrat ideas or Democrat votes . Any deviation from that by NPR reporters on air or online should be corrected". </P> <P> Delegates to the Democratic National Committee once proposed using "Publican Party" instead of "Republican Party". The committee failed to accept the proposal, "explaining that Republican is the name by which the our opponents' product is known and mistrusted". Sherman Yellen suggested "The Republicants" as suitably comparable in terms of negative connotation in an April 29, 2007 Huffington Post commentary . </P>

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