From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
In an interview with the New York Times, Hagedorn described some of the reaction his decision has received:
Talk radio in Wisconsin, particularly on the conservative side, is very prominent. I turned on the radio one morning driving to work and heard what a horrible person I was. So it’s hard to miss it.
Yes, I’ve been called a traitor. I’ve been called a liar. I’ve been called a fraud. I’ve been asked if I’m being paid off by the Chinese Communist Party. I’ve been told I might be tried for treason by a military tribunal. Sure, I’ve gotten lots of interesting and sometimes dark messages.
In his Tweets attacking Hagedorn, the president made a number of errors starting with the election results. Trump lost Wisconsin by over 20,000 votes and did not win in a “landslide” as the president claimed.
As far as endorsing Hagedorn, a search on Google, Twitter and Ballotpedia revealed no endorsement by the president. It’s possible that Trump did endorse Hagedorn but given it’s lack of visibility the endorsement, if it was made, did not impact the race. On Twitter, Trump did congratulate Hagedorn after his victory.
The president was also wrong in claiming “Hagedorn easily won!” Hagedorn managed a victory of just over 5000 votes out of 1.2 million cast.
Finally, Trump was incorrect in saying his state lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin’s election was about “fraud.” As National Review’s Andrew McCarthy (a Trump supporter and a former federal prosecutor) pointed out, there were no cases of fraud alleged in the lawsuit.