Some of America’s leading conservative media outlets, such as the New York PostFox News and The Wall Street Journal, are already beginning to turn their backs on the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021) after the republicans did not obtain the victory that many predicted in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The different articles that have appeared in right-wing media, both neoliberal and conservative, thus show an increasingly clear distance between these media that are close to the Republican Party and the former president, at a time when everyone takes it for granted that he intends to run for re-election. And when his environment suggested that he postpone the announcement about his 2024 candidacywhich he planned to do on November 15, next week.
the conservative newspaper New York Post (owned by tycoon Rupert Murdoch) publishes this Thursday on its cover a caricature of the tycoon with a huge head, sitting on a wall, and says that Trump “sabotaged” the mid-term elections by proposing the wrong Republican candidates.
In an opinion piece, journalist John Podhoretz describes the former president as “toxic”: “What the results of Tuesday night suggest is that Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in the modern history of the United States,” he writes in the newspaper that until recently has served as Trump’s loudspeaker.
As to The Wall Street Journalconsidered a spokesman for the financial world, also points his finger Trump as responsible for the red wave not taking place (Republican color) expected in this mid-term election.
“Trump’s Republican candidates failed at the polls in states that were clearly ‘winnable.’ Perhaps these defeats are what the party needs to hear before 2024,” the editorial board notes in an opinion piece titled “Trump is the biggest loser in the Republican Party.”
As Trump loses popularity, Florida Governor Ron DeSantisis gaining media favoritism, including on Fox News, Trump’s own favorite outlet for years: “Ron DeSantis is the new leader of the Republican Party,” reads the headline of a Fox opinion piece, authored by Liz Peek he writes that “Republicans are ready to move on without Trump.”