The Wall Street Journal editorial board this week put the blame for Republican losses in the midterms at the feet of former President Trump, calling him the GOP’s “biggest loser.”
The Hill
That had to smart.
The board said in an editorial published Wednesday that Trump-style Republican candidates lost in races that were “clearly” winnable, but the defeats might be what the Republican Party needs to see before the 2024 presidential election.
“What will Democrats do when Donald Trump isn’t around to lose elections? We have to wonder because on Tuesday Democrats succeeded again in making the former President a central campaign issue, and Mr. Trump helped them do it,” the board said.
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The board also criticized Trump for attacking other Republicans at a rally ahead of the midterms in an editorial published this past weekend.
The board pointed to several Senate races where Trump-backed candidates underperformed.
Frankly, I think people are putting too much weight on Trump's part in the midterms. His influence in the primaries may well have given the GOP horrible candidates, but at this juncture in our country's hard division, I think the majority of the emphasis can be laid onto the GOP's increasingly obvious intrusion into people's personal lives.
“Since his unlikely victory in 2016 against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeat,” the board said.
It said Republicans faced heavy losses in the 2018 midterms, then Trump lost reelection in 2020, then sabotaged two key Senate runoffs in Georgia in 2021 and has botched the 2022 midterms. It said he had successes as president, but he has sent the party into one “political fiasco” after another.
And they're right about this at least: Trump is a big loser.
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