Senator Chuck Grassley, president pro tempore of the Senate, pleaded with President Trump in a Friday tweet to read a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that predicted Joe Biden would be the next president.
‘Has anyone with access to the Oval Office read the WSJ editorial’ The Trump Referendum? We will not [have] best judges of scotus or the best economy in 50 years like us [have] if you don’t follow that advice, ” Grassley wrote.
Experts Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough also spoke on Friday, with Carlson saying that Trump “could lose” and Scarborough theorizing that Trump did not want four more years.
Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, sent a tweet telling President Trump to read a Wall Street Journal opinion piece predicting that he would lose the White House to Joe Biden if he did not present an agenda for the second term.
Senator Chuck Grassley sent the tweet on Friday, asking someone in the White House to publish The Wall Street Journal editorial in front of President Trump.
Another ally, Tucker Carlson of the Fox News Channel, wrote an opinion piece for the network’s website on Friday predicting that President Trump could lose the election.
Friends-turned-critics Mika Brzezinski (left) and Joe Scarborough (right) from ‘Morning Joe’ wondered on Friday morning if President Trump was trying to sabotage his reelection chances because he didn’t want to be in the White House for four more years
“This guy you and I have known for many years is not only not acting like he doesn’t want to be re-elected, he’s acting like he really wants to lose a lot and take the Republican party with him.” Scarborough said to the guest Donny Deustch.
Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ and a former Republican lawmaker, had been friends with Trump, but became critical after the billionaire real estate developer moved into the White House.
Scarborough has been the target of Trump’s tweets, as the president has continually come up with a conspiracy theory that he killed a staff assistant when he was a member of Congress. The story is not true.
Scarborough said Friday that he knew his theory was outlandish, but he also couldn’t understand why the President was taking certain positions.
“None of this would make sense in the conventional sense,” said Scarborough. ‘But you look at every move he’s making. It is at 25 percent of a 75/25 issue. And it continues to happen every day.
‘This seems like a deliberate attempt to take your campaign to the ground every day. He knows that what he is doing is going to reduce the numbers of the surveys. And they are. They are falling apart every day, ” Scarborough continued.
His co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, agreed.
“He doesn’t want four more years,” he said.
‘That’s clear. It shows by its behavior. His attidude towards the health of the American people, he doesn’t want to be there, “he added.
Carlson, a Fox News Channel presenter, wrote a meandering op-ed on the network’s website on Friday with a main conclusion:Not many people say it out loud to the right, but the fact is, President Trump could lose this election. ”
In fact, unless the fundamental facts change soon, it could be difficult for him to be reelected. “
The Wall Street Journal said the same thing.
“President Trump may soon need a new nickname for ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden. How does the president-elect sound? the opinion writers said. “In the current trend, that’s exactly what Biden will be on November 4, as Trump heads for what could be a historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate with him.”
The Wall Street Journal noted a number of problems with the president’s recent behavior.
He turned the coronavirus task force briefings into “fights with the press of bear harassment and any politician who did not praise the heavens.”
“Lately he has even given up on talking about the pandemic when it could offer realism and hope on the road ahead even when the country reopens. His flaw now is defensive self-gratification,” they wrote.
Trump also did not calm racial tensions.
‘The country also wants strong but empathetic leadership after George Floyd’s death, but Trump offers combative tweets that inflame. Not long ago, Trump tweeted that a 75-year-old man who was pushed by police in Buffalo could be an antifa activist. He offered no evidence, ” he said. “Americans don’t like racial enmity and want their president to reduce it.”
But The Journal also gave Trump a solution: Outlining a second term agenda.
“The only issue on which voters now give him an advantage over Biden is the economy,” he said. “An agenda to revive the economy after the pandemic and restore earnings for workers in their first three years would attract millions.”
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