More Anti-Trump Noise From Salena Zito
Zito shouldn’t insult the intelligence of people with pitifully weak, transparently obvious hit pieces against the far-and-away leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024.
Just so there’s no confusion, I’d vote for any Republican over any Democrat in next year’s presidential election. To illustrate how important I think it is to defeat the Party of Evil, I’d even vote for Nikki Haley—whom I trust about as far as I could throw a pickup truck—if somehow she were the Republican nominee.
So, of course, I’ll vote for Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis, if either of them is the Republican nominee. If an honest election is possible, I think DeSantis might, depending on how things go between now and then, have a better chance against Biden or whichever America-hating Marxist the Party of Evil runs. But I think the country has a better chance of being saved with a president who goes for the Left’s jugular, and while DeSantis would probably be smarter going about that than Trump, Trump might be more willing to try.
In any case, as I said in my last article, when the Texas GOP presidential primary is held next year, I’ll vote for whoever I think has the best chance of winning it, who also has the best chance of winning in the general election.
On to the main point today, my previous article was about an anti-Trump hit piece written by Washington Examiner staff reporter Salena Zito, and this morning I noticed she has written another one.
To re-cap Zito’s last one, she implied no one in Pennsylvania supports Trump over DeSantis, on the basis of conversations she had with five of the state’s 3.4 million registered Republican voters. That, at a time that Trump was obliterating all other candidates for the Republican nomination nationally, and leading DeSantis by more than 2-to-1, as he still is.
That article of Zito’s was published by the Examiner and two other “conservative” websites, Townhall and American Greatness. (Disclaimer: Several of my articles appeared on the latter two sites several years ago, but I stopped writing for them because I consider them beneath my professional standards.) Zito’s article was also picked up by RealClearPolitics.
A week or so later, the Examiner tried to brush off the significance of Trump’s massive lead in Republican polls, saying “Republican voters are a long way from making up their minds.” A couple of days after that, it claimed that Trump is the only candidate who can’t beat Biden.
Zito’s latest pro-DeSantis/anti-Trump noise appears on the same four websites.
Quite coordinated. So much for “independent journalism.”
Zito notes that Trump cancelled a rally in Iowa because of a tornado warning, and on that basis alone, she says, “If Trump is failing with those same voters in Iowa . . . .”
Trump is “failing . . . with voters” because there was a tornado? Does Zito think readers are that stupid? Is that the best she could come up with? She’d get trounced in a high school debate class with something so pathetic. She’s a professional journalist?
And there’s more. Trump rallies are attended by tens of thousands. But, Zito gushes, DeSantis had a rally attended by 1,100 in Peoria, then he stopped by a pizza joint, and then a barbecue joint. Are we supposed to be impressed?
To wrap this up, Zito shouldn’t insult the intelligence of people with pitifully weak, transparently obvious hit pieces against the far-and-away leading candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024. If she wants DeSantis over Trump, she should tell us why. Based upon what? Otherwise, waste someone else’s time.
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