Opinion: Donald Trump’s Georgia Rewrite

The Wall Street Journal editorial continues to knowingly fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have hurt so much. Republican Party, “Mr. Trump said in a statement.” That’s where they are and that’s where they always will be. Fortunately, no one cares much about the editorial staff of The Wall Street Journal anymore. “

For someone who says we don’t matter, he certainly spends a lot of time reading and responding to us. Thanks for the attention.

What really seems to annoy Mar-a-Lago’s most famous resident isn’t his caricature of our policy differences. It is that we recognize the reality that Mr. Trump is the main reason the Republicans lost two races in the Georgia Senate in January and thus the majority in the Senate. Trump refuses to take responsibility for those defeats, contrary to all evidence.

Mr Trump’s statement blames the losses in Georgia on GOP Governor Brian Kemp and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. His rap against Mr. Kemp is that he hasn’t fought hard enough to undo the president’s loss of state in November, a claim that Trump became his main campaign theme for the Senate elections in Georgia on Jan. 5.

All polls showed that the best argument for the election of the two Republicans was control against a fully democratic government. But instead of bringing that point to voters, Mr. Trump focused on his grievances against Mr. Kemp and his claims that the election had been stolen. Trump told Republican voters their votes had been pointless in November, so it’s no surprise that their turnout dropped in January. As the FiveThirtyEight website found, “The better Trump fared in a county in November, the more turnout fell in runoffs” in January.

Mr. Trump also blames Mr. McConnell’s “refusal to pay more than $ 600 per person for the payment of stimulus checks when the two Democratic opponents were recruiting $ 2,000 per person in ad after ad.” This rewrites history.

Mr. Trump’s Treasury Secretary announced support for the $ 600 checks on Dec. 8, and the GOP backed the proposal. He didn’t approve the $ 2,000 checks until Dec. 22, giving the Democrats a sword against the two GOP senate candidates who signed $ 600. The two eventually underwrote $ 2,000, but seemed unscrupulous. Mr. Trump’s $ 2,000 flip-flop covered his own party’s candidates to the knee.

“Even dumber,” Trump adds, “the National Republican Senate Committee has spent millions of dollars on ineffective TV ads starring Mitch McConnell.” That is not true either. We have been told that the Senate Committee only spent about $ 90,000 on ads shown on national cable television to raise money. They raised about $ 6 million, which was then spent on ads in Georgia featuring the Senate candidates, not Mr. McConnell.

We are all rehearsing this because it is important for GOP fortunes in the future. In the only Trump term, Republicans lost the House, the White House, and ultimately the Senate. How come everyone but the most prominent Republican in the country is responsible for victories, but not for the defeats Republicans left in the wilderness?

Losing all people to Joe Biden, and with 7.1 million votes as the sitting president, must be painful. Counseling could be okay. Any good analyst will explain that the first step to recovery is to accept reality. The same is true for Republican voters who want to win back Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024.