Fox News Collapses on Air as Blue Wave Arrives

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Speaker 6 State regime media, which calls itself Fox News, was in an utter panic all last night. They could not handle not just the blue wave, but the blue tsunami that crushed MAGA on election day.

Speaker 6 This massive repudiation of Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. I want you to watch this utter cope by all of these Fox hosts.

Speaker 6 This is probably the favorite video I've ever done on Fox, at least in recent memory.

Speaker 6 So you had one of the Fox contributors, Ari Fleischer, and he was like, look, if I take all this data tonight, I think I'd rather be big picture, a Republican than a Democrat. Oh, really?

Speaker 6 Is that how you're going to cope? You're playing this clip.

Speaker 9 Socialism is a growing problem for the Democratic Party.

Speaker 9 And the more the Democrats embrace socialism with all the horrors that it entails, the crime that'll take place in New York City, the abandonment of New York City by the successful and the taxpayer.

Speaker 9 This is what's going to hurt the Democratic reputation and base going forward. It's hollowing out the Democratic Party.

Speaker 9 I would so much rather, even with tonight's bad results, be the Republicans in the big picture than the Democrats. There's also, I just want to add, a race in Maine we should pay attention to tonight.

Speaker 9 It's a ballot initiative to see if voters in Maine want to mandate driver's licenses in order to vote. That looks like it's going to pass.

Speaker 9 So aside of the bigger races here, pay attention to Minneapolis. Pay attention to that ballot initiative in Maine, But it's a tough night for Republicans, but it sets up 26.

Speaker 9 Republicans are running against socialism.

Speaker 6 Then you have Kellyanne Conway, Miss Alternative Facts. I should call it alternative universe.

Speaker 6 And she said, look, the voters, they told all the pollsters they wanted this, that, but they lied to the pollsters. And that's why we saw the results.
Really? That's what you think?

Speaker 6 Or maybe it's because Trump and MAGA are just vile and people hate them and hate you. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 10 No doubt. This is what happened when Democrats turn out to vote in largely Democratic blue states, and that's what happened.

Speaker 10 The one curious thing, though, Sean and Ari, is that the voters told pollsters they want lower taxes, fewer regulations, less crime, less chaos with respect to migration.

Speaker 10 They want to make sure that the police are respected and that their values are reflected. And then they went and voted against all of that

Speaker 10 today in the form of these governors. Look, Jack Chittarelli, we were all very hopeful, hopeful, but guess what?

Speaker 10 The Fox News voter analysis suggests that he failed to win young men and to replicate what President Trump did one short year ago with Hispanics, with union households, with independents.

Speaker 10 So to the extent that tonight is a referendum on President Trump at all, guess what? It means that he's one of one. You can get his endorsement, and this is a clarion call for 2026, folks.

Speaker 10 You can have President Trump's endorsement. It doesn't mean you're going to win.
You have to do what he did. You have to go and dip into these unfamiliar to Republican constituencies.

Speaker 10 You've got to be very specific and granular and show up every single moment.

Speaker 6 Then you had Jesse Waters, one of Fox's cheap propagandists. And he's like, so the Democrats are going to try to spin this as like a referendum on Trump, but it certainly isn't that at all.

Speaker 6 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 The Democrats are going to spin this. This is a referendum on Trump.

Speaker 1 I mean, these are all blue states, is it?

Speaker 6 Really, Jesse?

Speaker 6 Because one of your other hosts, she was talking about New jersey and some of the other states seemed to indicate that the voters actually really wanted to repudiate donald trump she says the reason for their vote they hate donald trump 71 of them who voted hate him hate the guy here play this clip and as far as the trump impact on the cheryl voters the reason for their vote The Cheryl voters vote, those who said that they wanted to oppose the sitting president, 71% of them.

Speaker 13 So this is really what led to the outcome tonight.

Speaker 6 Oh, but Jesse, I thought you said he was an alpha and he was so popular. Yeah, I guess that's not the case.

Speaker 6 Also, what Fox was trying to grapple with as well, after coming up with all their contrived and fake attacks on Mikey Sherrill, who was like a distinguished helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor.

Speaker 6 We've had her on the Midas Dutch network a ton. They were trying to attack her.

Speaker 6 I don't even know what the attack was, but they were like, yeah, most people didn't care about what we were attacking her for yet because it was stupid. You're playing this clip.

Speaker 13 With a college degree in New Jersey, 59%

Speaker 13 showed up for Cheryl. But just looking at some of these other top findings, I mean, when it comes to the...

Speaker 13 the quality that they were looking for in their candidate, she did not get hit on honesty and trustworthy, even though

Speaker 13 she had to suffer through this Naval Academy controversy.

Speaker 13 Those that were looking for that in a candidate, still 70% cast their vote for her.

Speaker 14 So that that did not end up hurting her sean all right my favorite part when fox had to call the victories for the democrats here was fox calling new jersey for mikey sherrill play this clip uh all right we are ready projection time the fox news decision desk can now project that congresswoman mikey sherrill will in fact become the next democratic governor of new jersey now sherill defeats republican jack chitterelli whom president trump endorsed in may uh the gop had hoped that chittarelli could deliver an upset after a very close loss four years ago.

Speaker 6 Now,

Speaker 6 here's one how did he had to call it for Zoran Mamdani. Play this clip.

Speaker 14 The Fox News decision desk can now project

Speaker 14 New York City has elected Democrat Assemblyman Zoran Mamdani to be its next mayor. Now, he will become the first Muslim mayor of the city and its youngest in more than a century.

Speaker 14 Not really a surprise. I don't know why people are waking up in the last two and a half weeks.
I think they should have woke up after the primary where he handily defeated Andrew Cuomo.

Speaker 6 It gets better. Here he is calling that the next Virginia Attorney General will be Jay Jones.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 14 We have a lot to talk about throughout the night right here on the Fox News channel, but we can now make a call.

Speaker 14 The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Democrat Jay Jones will become Virginia's next attorney general, defeating the Republican incumbent Jason Miaris.

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Speaker 6 And they were trying to process it. They were trying to cope even more.
So you had Brett Baer, who lives in his $40 million Florida mansion, and McCallum.

Speaker 6 They were like, okay, so I think people really do care about this affordability stuff. And maybe they're not buying what Donald Trump is selling.

Speaker 6 I'm not talking about the Trump Bibles or the Trump meme coins or the whatever things that he's selling.

Speaker 6 Like when he's telling people right now that we're done with inflation and that everybody's living a golden age, oh, maybe that's not the best message. Here play this clip.

Speaker 15 You know, this idea of affordability, which just basically means inflation, that prices are too high, and that that's a real sensitivity spot for people, is, I think, something that Republicans do have to look carefully at.

Speaker 15 It's obvious that they're very aware of it.

Speaker 15 I saw James Blair today on with Larry Kudlow talking about how he believes that what they're seeing in the future indicator economic numbers are very positive. Scott Besson has implied the same thing.

Speaker 15 So obviously before you get to the midterms, Republicans are going to want to work on making sure that that is tangible, that people feel that increase. And I think the economy is stupid.

Speaker 15 It ends up being the simple story of a lot of elections. And I think that's clearly one of the lines here.

Speaker 6 More from Ari Fleischer.

Speaker 6 He goes, these are blue states. This is all about blue states, and that's it.
Democrats won blue states, really, like Virginia and all of these areas.

Speaker 6 What about all the House of Delegates in Virginia that turned blue, right? How many was it? 15, 16? Here, play this clip of Fleischer. Let's play it.

Speaker 14 Ari Fleischer, let's get your take on tonight.

Speaker 9 Well, blue states are blue states, and that's why the Democrats won tonight.

Speaker 6 And Fox is not taking that New York City mayor race well. Play this clip.

Speaker 10 He barely won. He won by a far smaller margin than she did.

Speaker 10 She dragged him over, and now he should be a drag on her because, my goodness, we've got a socialist, anti-Semite, pro-Hamaska as mayor of New York.

Speaker 6 Oh, here's when Trace Gallagher. I feel like I'm watching Anchorman with these ridiculous names.
Trace Gallagher. Here, Trace Gallagher now projects that Proposition 50 will pass.
Play this clip.

Speaker 11 This is a special Election Night Edition of America's Late News, Fox News at Night.

Speaker 11 And breaking right now, the polls are closed in California, and Fox News is now projecting that Proposition 50 will pass the congressional redistricting plan from Governor Gavin Newsom that is expected to flip five seats held by Republicans.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 6 Do you remember when we showed this video on the Midas Touch podcast? Remember the Trofegar pollster last week on Hannity's New Jersey town hall? Remember this guy? He's like the right-wing pollster.

Speaker 6 Like, well, I won't do an impression.

Speaker 1 Play the clip.

Speaker 17 And like you said,

Speaker 17 four years ago, we had the best poll in New Jersey. We saw this thing close then.
We see it close now. And what you said is also very important.
Look at who has this race close and who doesn't.

Speaker 17 The pollsters that have good records,

Speaker 17 like us, like Emerson College, like Coefficient, and like Qantas,

Speaker 17 They all have this race extremely tight. The ones that consistently fail at elections, they're the ones skewing the averages.
So it's important to pay attention to the pollsters who get it right.

Speaker 17 And it's an impulsive to look at what the Democrats do, not what they say. And the fact that they're sending Obama and the fact that they're worried,

Speaker 17 look at their actions. Don't look at their words and certainly don't look at their media polls.
Look at what they do.

Speaker 6 And then earlier in the day, you had

Speaker 6 my brothers are going to say, stop, don't do your impressions, man. Just call the clips.
Okay. Then Laurie Chavez-DeReamer, the anti-labor secretary, the labor secretary.

Speaker 6 I know my jokes are getting cornier as we get into more of these videos.

Speaker 6 Laurie Chavez-DeReamer, here she's asked, so like, what do you say when people are like, yo, this economy is horrible under Donald Trump and that America's lost more jobs, 950,000 jobs in the first three quarters than at any time since the Great Recession and COVID while Donald Trump was in office?

Speaker 6 And it was only three quarters of results. Here's what Chavez de Reamer says here: play this clip.

Speaker 12 How would you right now describe the labor market?

Speaker 16 Well, I can tell you when the president took office, there was so much consumer confidence from what we inherited in the Biden administration that we were excited with the executive orders to develop the workforce.

Speaker 16 We had been focused on our apprenticeship program, registering more of our blue-collar workers, making sure that they had the skills they needed.

Speaker 16 And now, with the shutdown and with the delay in dropping that Fed rate, it has caused some more uncertainty. And so we want the labor market to grow.

Speaker 16 This is what the president has been so focused on. This is what I have been focused on.
It was to bring the private sector together with the public sector, to bring labor and management together.

Speaker 16 And all of the private sector jobs have increased. And that is what we wanted to see.
And now this delay has stopped that momentum. And I can tell you, it's not good for the American economy.

Speaker 16 It's not good for the American people. And so we're focused.
We're going to keep doing everything we can during this shutdown, but it has to end soon.

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