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Trump inadvertently augments Biden’s message of encouragement with another statement against McConnell
Former President Donald Trump released a new post-presidential statement, and Democrats can be happy about it. The former president, who remains permanently banned from Twitter, released a statement on Thursday, again, against Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Accusing him of “the most unpopular politician. of the country “and blaming him for the Republican Senate losses in Georgia – losses for which Trump himself was held responsible by other Republicans. One of the reasons why Republicans missed the two second rounds of the Georgia Senate in January, Trump argues, was “Mitch McConnell’s refusal to go above $ 600 per person in stimulus check payments when the two Democratic opponents were touting $ 2,000 per person in ad after ad. ” The statement offered “a political pre-stimulus gift to Democrats,” wrote Josh Kraushaar of the National Journal, while Dave Weigel of The Washington Post noted that Trump “remarkably” used this opportunity to “validate Biden’s message about $ checks 1,400 instead of beating him and Democrats for restricting them. “Notably, Trump also uses this statement to validate Biden’s message about the $ 1400 checks, instead of beating him and the Democrats for restricting them. “The $ 2,000 will be approved by the Democrats anyway.” https://t.co/M9dXoX13VS – Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 4, 2021 In fact, Trump writes that “the $ 2,000 will be approved by Democrats anyway”, although he does not comment on the fact that new checks are actually for $ 1,400, nor about Biden’s recent commitment that restricts eligibility. Politico’s Gabby Orr noted that Trump “could have made a statement saying that phasing out revenue on the Biden stimulus project will mean that he gave checks to more Americans”, but “instead, he is still targeting his own party with things like this. “This was just Trump’s last statement in this regard after he released another one last month describing McConnell as a” serious political hack “. He also mentioned McConnell in a recent speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he received credit for McConnell’s recent reelection. McConnell told Fox News that he “did not attend” the speech and that “we are dealing with the present and the future, without looking to the past”. More stories from theweek.com7 sarcastically funny caricatures about Trump’s appearance at CPAC. Trump wants to take revenge on Senator Murkowski of Alaska. His advisers think he will not move on because the flight is too long. The perpetual movement machine of republican complaints