New York Times continues to grind out fake stories about 76-year-old former President Donald Trump. Due to announce 9 PM EST at his Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago ressort, the Times can’t control itself emphasizing Trump’s feud with 44-year-old Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Time writes have been trash Trump for the last seven years when he announced for president in 2015, highlighting his devious businesses practices and more recently playing up the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, essentially blaming Trump for the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. DeSantis, considered a front-runner for the 2024 GOP campaign, has been slammed by Trump recently, now that he gets closer announcing for president. Trump has hinted for the last two years that he’d jump back into the 2024 race, saying the country under Biden has gone down the tubes. Now the Times wants to talk about the Trump-DeSantis feud.
Coming off the Nov. 8 Midterm election, the New York Times and many other liberal and conservative news sources blamed Trump for the poor showing in the U.S. Senate, leaving Democrats in the majority, at least for now at 50-49 seats, with one more seat in Georgia between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Hershel Walker up for grabs in a Dec. 6 runoff. Whatever happens in Georgia doesn’t change anything, with Democrats already retaining the Senate. Republicans had high hopes in the 2022 Midterms expecting to take control of the Senate and the House but it didn’t pan out. Looks like Republicans seized control of the House, with Democrats retaining control of the Senate. Media’s narrative, largely anti-Trump, tried to pin the so-called poor showing on candidates endorsed by Trump. Whether Trump’s candidates won or not, it’s unreasonable to blame Trump.
New York Times got DeSantis to say how disappointed he was with the GOP’s performance in the Nov. 8 Mideterm election. But what the Times and DeSantis didn’t say was the Republican always had low odds of winning the Senate. With 35 Senate seats up for grabs, Democrats only had 14 the were defending, while Republicans had 21. So, when it came the GOP’s chances in the Senate, Democrat always had the best odds to holing on the Upper Chamaber. When the dust settled, Democrats controlled 50 seats, while Repbulcians 49. But in the House of Representatives a different story prevailed with Republicans poised to with the majority [218] any day now. Where’s the New York Times and DeSantis commenting on the remarkable feat of the GOP taking over the House? If they blame Trump for Democrat control of the Senate, what are they going to say about the GOP taking over the House?
DeSantis, a former Trump backer, now joins the New York Times analysis that Trump must be blamed for the Midterms. But the Democrat-controlled newspaper knows that Republicans have nearly taken the House. With the GOP in 2018 and 2020 elections shellacked by Democrats, what can they say now about the GOP taking the House? DeSantis knows that Trump seeks the presidency again because he felt robbed in the 2020 election, whether factual or not. Democrats call Trump’s claims to “voter fraud” the “Big Lie,” while never acknowledging that in the Covid-19 global pandemic, state election boards approved universal mail-in ballots. Democrats knew in 2020 that universal mail-in ballots favored Democrats by over 20%, since they enjoyed a significant registration advantage. Trump could not reconcile universal mail-ballots to his loss to 80-year-old President Joe Biden.
DeSantis bought right into the Democrat trap, getting him to suggest that the GOP’s poor Midterm performance was somehow due to Trump. Well, DeSantis has said nothing about the GOP sending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) into retirement. Whether DeSantis—or any other candidate—challenges Trump in the 2024 primaries, Republican voters will decide the nominee. All Democrats and press obsession for the last two years was about keeping Trump from running again in 2024. DeSantis told the Times about his 19% victory in his reelection as governor, appealing to independents and crossover Democrats. DeSantis took a cheap shot a Trump claiming that he’s got the vast majority of Republicans behind him. But DeSantis doesn’t have a word to say about the GOP remarkable feat of taking back the House. For that, Trump gets zero credit, only blame for keeping the Senate the same.
DeSantis needs to stop boasting about his big win and Florida and recognized the impact of the GOP winning the House. “What Florida showed is that the good policies and the good leadership can reverberate just beyond your little silo of the people that agree with you on everything,” DeSantis said, trying to toot his own horn. DeSantis is only 44-year-of-age with not foreign policy experience, something that going to prove essential in 2024. Biden has brought the country to the brink of WW III, possibly nuclear war, all because of abysmal decision-making. No one told him to take on the Russian Federation to defend Ukraine. Ukraine has zero national security significance to the U.S. But Biden chose to trash U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese relations leaving the U.S. in the most dangerous national security space since WW II. Another two years of Biden and country could be at war with China.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
