WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump kicked off his 12th week in office by labeling the Democrat in a special Georgia House race as "super liberal" and slamming the media for "slanted" coverage.
A day before Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff will try to pull off a major upset in Georgia's 6th District, which has long been a safe GOP seat, Trump warned voters about his stances on immigration, taxes and criminal justice.
Ossoff is trying to get to 50 percent in Tuesday's race to fill the seat vacated when former House Budget Chairman Tom Price became Health and Human Services secretary. If Ossof fails to get over that threshold, he would head to a runoff with the Republican who gets the most votes.
If the Democrat is able to win Tuesday, it would be a major defeat for Republicans and Trump, just shy of his 100th day in office.
The president seemed to pin some of the blame for Ossoff's performance on one of his favorite targets: the news media. In a tweet Sunday night, he described the coverage in a recent Kansas as a "really big media event," which news outlets ended when GOP State Treasurer Ron Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson by 6 points.
Trump contends media organizations are trying to "play the same game with Georgia-BAD!"
In another Monday morning tweet, the president fired off a somewhat confusing post, again criticizing the media _ or some news outlets. He wrote that "The Fake Media (not Real Media) has gotten even worse since the election," adding that every story from those outlets is "badly slanted." He urged his followers to hold news outlets accountable.
Trump did not define which outlets are "Fake" and which he considers "Real."
