British commentator Piers Morgan is urging President Trump to learn from the results of Tuesday’s special Senate election in Alabama.
British commentator Piers Morgan is urging President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for ‘serious case of amnesia’ after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don’t want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE to learn from the results of Tuesday’s special Senate election in Alabama.
«If Trump doesn’t heed the gigantic alarm bells that went off last night, he’s a fool,» Morgan wrote in a piece published in The Daily Mail.
«Momentum is everything in politics and the pendulum just swung dramatically back toward the Democrats.»
His comments come after Democrat Doug Jones on Tuesday defeated his GOP opponent Roy Moore in the Alabama race.
Jones is the first member of his party to win a Senate seat in the state since 1992.
Trump last week threw his full support behind Moore, who has been accused by multiple women of having inappropriate contact with them when they were teenagers.
Morgan in the op-ed called Moore an «unprecedentedly terrible candidate» and said Trump made a «catastrophically bad decision to support him.»
«Alabama turned blue last night, driven largely by black men and women, and this astonishing turnaround may have potentially very far-reaching consequences for not just for 2018 but also the 2020 General Election,» Morgan wrote.
«President Trump has only himself to blame. He should never have backed such a wretched horse. Roy Moore is a dumb, vile, racist, homophobic, anti-semitic, sexist Islamophobe.»
Still, Morgan said Trump has achieved «considerable success» in delivering on some of his campaign promises, including growing the U. S. economy and cutting illegal immigration.
«This defeat will sting and hurt him but he may also help him in the long run, if he heeds the lessons from it,» he wrote.
He urged Trump to stop listening to former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who campaigned for and voiced his support for Moore. He also said Trump must start being more «inclusive» and listen to other senior Republicans.
Trump should also stop his «below-the-belt attacks on Twitter,» Morgan wrote.
