Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back at the right-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board on Thursday for misrepresenting his popularity with primary voters.
“The Journal is bad at math,” Trump said Thursday on Twitter. “The good news is, nobody cares what they say in their editorials anymore, especially me!”
.@WSJ is bad at math. The good news is, nobody cares what they say in their editorials anymore, especially me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2016
Trump’s issue with the Journal, which has been highly critical of the candidate, is an unsigned editorial published Wednesday night that compared the total votes he’s received to those of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
“If Mr. Trump can’t win a majority of Republicans, he can’t win a majority of Americans in November. By the way, Hillary Clinton’s primary vote total so far is 8,646,551, according to the Real Clear Politics count. Mr. Trump’s is 7,533,692,” the editorial said. It also criticized him for declaring he won’t show up for the now-canceled Fox News debate that was planned for Monday.
Trump accused the Journal of using a false comparison.
“[Journal] editorial says ‘Clinton primary vote total is 8,646,551.Trump’s is 7,533,692’ — a knock. But she had only 3 opponents — I had 16. Apologize,” Trump said in another tweet.
The Democratic field has been narrowed down to just two candidates ever since the first contest in February, whereas the Republican field was, until this week, far more expansive with a dozen candidates competing for the nomination.
There are now just three: Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
In a third tweet, Trump called on his nearly 7 million Twitter followers to “please explain to the dummies at the [Journal] editorial board that I love to debate and have won, according to Drudge [Report] etc., all 11 of them!”
