Donald Trump will probably hate his new RNC co-chair’s verbal blunder on Fox News

One of the two new co-chairs of the Republican National Committee made a statement Friday on Fox News that risks pissing off former President Donald Trump.

The gaffe was not committed by Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, but by his apparently more experienced co-president, Michael Whatley.

It came as Whatley tried to reiterate the Republican Party’s latest ploy to voters: asking them if they were better off today than they were four years ago.

Considering the world was overtaken by the pandemic in 2020 — and Trump was in office — this might not be the best talking point for Republicans.

Yet Whatley tried to make that point on Friday, but ended up making the opposite point:

Whatley emphasized a second time that things are better under Biden, saying: “WWe are better,” but managed to set the record straight by adding, “We will be better under President Trump than under President Biden.” »

The “Are you better off?” question has been used by Republicans since Ronald Reagan asked it during a 1980 presidential debate with Jimmy Carter.

The question was effective in 1980 thanks, among other things, to high inflation and high gas prices, but less today, knowing that 2020 was, among other things, the deadliest year in the history of the United States- United.

That doesn’t stop Republicans from dutifully prolonging the tired old talking point in the hopes that it will stick somewhere, anywhere.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) tried to make the same point earlier this month and was brutally mocked by people with better memories.

Naturally, Whatley’s remarks drew plenty of mockery on social media from people who remember the dystopian horrors of four years ago all too well.

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