Former President Trump
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In a statement released Thursday, Trump accused the newspaper’s opinion section, which has a traditionally conservative slant, of supporting “ globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders and endless wars. ”
“They are fighting for RINOS who have hurt the Republican Party so badly,” Trump said. “That’s where they are and that’s where they will always be. Fortunately, no one cares about the editors of The Wall Street Journal anymore. They have lost their credibility. “
The statement came in response to an editorial describing the GOP’s many election losses since Trump took office.
The newspaper wrote that despite Trump’s claims about his dominance, he lost it President Biden
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During Trump’s tenure, Republicans lost the House, Senate, and White House. The former president’s approval score never reached more than 50 percent in most polls, the editorial says.
“As long as Republicans focus on Trump’s past grievances, they will not be a ruling majority,” the editorial concluded.
The Wall Street Journal also blamed Trump for the GOP’s losses in two races in the Georgia Senate.
Those races gave Democrats a majority in the Senate and came as the GOP was torn apart by Trump’s claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him through widespread fraud.
Many Republicans believe Trump’s claims quelled the GOP vote in rural Georgia, where some voters thought their ballots wouldn’t count, and in the Atlanta suburbs, where right-wing independents were turned off by the GOP power struggle and claims about it. a conspiracy.
He took the GOP two races in the Georgia Senate on Jan. 5, because he made his allegations about electoral fraud the main issue instead of Mr. Biden and Nancy Pelosi
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Trump fired back, blaming Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
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Trump also blamed the Senate’s losses to the then majority Senate leader Mitch McConnell
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“This last point was used against our senators and the $ 2,000 will be approved by the Democrats who bought the election in Georgia anyway – and McConnell let them do it!” Trump said. Even more stupid is that the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent millions of dollars on ineffective TV ads starring Mitch McConnell, the country’s most unpopular politician, who only won in Kentucky because President Trump supported him. Without this approval, he would have lost heavily. “
McConnell won the reelection by nearly 20 points, his biggest margin since 2002.