Posted on 03/05/2021 8:09:10 AM PST by RandFan
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on Thursday fired back after facing criticism from former President Trump, saying he is “unhappy with us for recognizing reality.”
“Former Presidents and Vice Presidents have told us how psychologically difficult the early months of lost political power can be. We can therefore empathize if former President Trump is frustrated these days, and perhaps that explains his attack on us Thursday over his role in the GOP’s loss of the Senate,” the editorial board said.
The piece came hours after Trump bashed the outlet for calling on Republicans to abandon him and blamed his GOP critics for the party’s Georgia Senate losses.
“They fight for RINOS that have so badly hurt the Republican Party,” Trump said in a statement about the paper's traditionally conservative opinion section. “That's where they are and that's where they will always be. Fortunately, nobody cares much about The Wall Street Journal editorial anymore. They have lost great credibility."
The editorial board, however, quipped back: “For someone who says we don’t matter, he sure spends a lot of time reading and responding to us. Thanks for the attention.”
“What really seems to rankle the most famous resident of Mar-a-Lago isn’t his caricature of our policy differences,” the Journal board wrote. “It’s that we recognize the reality that Mr. Trump is the main reason Republicans lost two Georgia Senate races in January and thus the Senate majority. Mr. Trump refuses to take responsibility for those defeats, contrary to all evidence.”
The outlet’s initial editorial had detailed the GOP’s many electoral losses since Trump came into office.
The paper wrote that despite Trump’s claims about his dominance, he lost to President Biden by 7 million votes and failed to win two traditionally red states: Arizona and Georgia.
During Trump’s tenure, Republicans lost the House, Senate and White House. The former president’s approval rating never reached above 50 percent in most polls, the editorial stated.
“He cost the GOP two Georgia Senate races on Jan. 5 as he made his claims of election fraud the main issue rather than checking Mr. Biden and Nancy Pelosi," the editorial board wrote. "Mr. Trump essentially told his Georgia supporters their votes didn’t matter, and many stayed home. The GOP lost the Senate.”
The Journal reiterated all of its initial arguments after Trump lashed out, saying “it matters to GOP fortunes going forward.”
“Losing to Joe Biden of all people, and by 7.1 million votes as an incumbent President, must be painful. Counseling could be in order. Any good analyst will explain that the first step toward recovery is to accept reality. The same applies to Republican voters who want to win back Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024,” the board wrote.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has been the mouthpiece of the Cheap Labor Express for decades.
WSJ’s editorial board is “laughable” — especially that Neo-con charlatan Paul Gigot. His tribute to Vernon Jordan in a recent issue was really more a story about how wonderful and virtuous he is and not really about Vernon Jordan.
The WSJ has had a leftist slant for years.
WSJ sounds pretty upset. Guess Trump got to them.
Straight up lie.
With all of the support from the WSJ, then why is McConnell setting himself up to leave the Senate before his term is completed.
Whatever.
What?
The RINO street journal does not like Trump?
Who’da thought?
WSJ jumped the shark many years ago.
why does Trump waste his time on slamming RINOs and WSJ editorial boards.
An elephant never forgets. A rino seems to relish in never learning.
quote “It’s that we recognize the reality that Mr. Trump is the main reason Republicans lost two Georgia Senate races in January and thus the Senate majority. Mr. Trump refuses to take responsibility for those defeats, contrary to all evidence.”
100% WRONG!
Trump handed both of those seats to the Republicans on a silver platter, but McConnel blew it! All McConnel had to do was approve the $2,000 checks going out (as Trump suggested) and we would have won those.
President Trump didn’t lose - he was robbed. We were robbed.
Nah, he isn’t upset, he was just pointing out that the wsj suffers a severe case of TDS
The two states where we can't look at the mail-in ballots that weren't folded for mailing...
Let’s let your circulation numbers speak for themselves.
McConnell lost those two seats, but the two candidates tried to play it safe by not going all in on backing Trump so a lot of Trumper’s stayed home.
McConnell passes the stimulus bill, candidates solidly back Trump and those two seats are GOP seats.
I wonder what happens when Wall Street moves to Florida?
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