“The best thing that President Trump could do to help us win majorities in 2022 is talk about the future, and he can be an important part of that — this ’22 effort,” said Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt over the weekend. “But I think better off to talk about the future than to focus on the past.”
Blunt’s advice to Trump to, well, move on from the 2020 election is simply the latest example of prominent Republicans telling the former president to do just that.
“Relitigating 2020 is a recipe for disaster in 2022,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said earlier this month. “Let’s talk about the future. The election is past, it’s been certified, the states made decisions on the integrity of each of their elections and made improvements where it need be. It’s about the future, it’s not about the last election, and that — those kinds of comments are not constructive. We can win in 2022. And we’re going to, but let’s focus on the important issues of our supply chain, of getting over this pandemic, about freedom, and not the, not the last election.”
And just six days ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN’s Manu Raju that “we need to be thinking about the future and not the past,” adding: “I think the American people are focusing on this administration, what it’s doing to the country, and it’s my hope the ’22 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration, not a rehash of suggestions about what may have happened in 2020.”
So the message is blunt: Time to stop talking about the 2020 election and focus on the 2022 one.
And is Trump listening? He is not!
On Monday, Trump sent out a message from his Save America PAC that read: “ICYMI: ‘Explosive Revelations in Wisconsin’s 2020 Election Audit Report.'” Wrote Trump: “And this is just the beginning—other Swing States are even (far) worse!”
Over the weekend, Trump issued a statement in which he claimed that “the other side spent four years making things up about election interference in 2016, yet…
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