Washington (CNN) Republican Senate candidate and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking issue with President Donald Trump's attacking on the media as "the enemy of the people," arguing that the President's tactics are detrimental to democracy.

Romney wrote in a blog post on his campaign website Thursday that while he sometimes gets "irritated" by stories he knows are wrong, he "cannot conceive of thinking or saying that the media or any responsible news organization is an enemy."

"Surely every president has endured stories that he knew were inaccurate and has chaffed at one or more news publications...," Romney, who's running for a US Senate seat in Utah, wrote.

"But no American president has ever before vilified the American press or one of its professional outlets as an "Enemy of the People."

Romney referenced Trump's tweet earlier this week that read that there's "great anger" in America "caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People..."

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