During an interview on this weekend’s Fox News Sunday, after bragging about all of the money he’s raised for his party and how they’ve supposedly delivered on all of their promises (tax cuts, spending cuts, deregulation) and lying about the economy they inherited from Biden, host Shannon Bream pressed Johnson on why the mood in the country is so sour right now, and Johnson proceeded to blame the media for their lousy polling numbers rather than admit or take responsibility for the damage they’ve done to the economy.
BREAM: With that long list, though, is it a messaging problem? Why do think Americans tell us over and over again in the polls they are worried about all kinds of things that are tied to the economy?
They don’t like the direction the country is moving in. They feel very pessimistic. Is something lost in translation? Is there more work to be done?
JOHNSON: Well, look, it’s a hostile media environment. Most of the mainstream media, of course, is advancing the false narrative of the other side, the Democrats and the Marxists, the insurgent left that is taking over the Democrat party.
They’re on the other team. And they can completely and constantly repeat that message.
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