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Fault-finding featured President Donald Trump looking beyond the ballot to who he says \u201cbears responsibility for these losses\u201d after an administrative-crippling blue wave.<\/p>\n

Midterm trends and troubling favorability ratings heading into Election Night carried with them expectations of a good night for Democrats. After roughly a month of constant campaigning proved insufficient to hold off the worst of the wave, the president continued an ongoing gripe with Fox News after its latest example of featuring a \u201cranting and raving\u201d leftist on the air.<\/p>\n

Late into the live coverage of the results, even before Trump himself phoned in to speak with the anchors, Fox News featured former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) as part of its panel coverage.<\/p>\n

As a result, the president, who had begun tearing into the network hours earlier, further criticized Fox News in a Truth Social post as he wondered, \u201cWhy does Fox News have Bill de Blasio, the Worst Mayor in the History of New York City, on air, ranting and raving like a Lunatic? He left the City in disgrace, and the damage he caused was incalculable \u2014 It has never been the same, and now he\u2019s telling us how to run America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFoxNews bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse,\u201d added Trump. \u201cGOD BLESS AMERICA!\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Earlier in the evening, before it was clear that the House and the Senate, as well as numerous state leadership positions, would be carried by the Democrats, the chief executive had not only sounded off on political commentator Jessica Tarlov\u2019s continued presence on the network, but he also brought up Fox News\u2019 ratings.<\/p>\n

\u201cFoxNews Ratings are way down (27%!) because they\u2019re spending too much time covering the Trump Deranged Dumocrats! All of those people who used to watch Fox, and no longer do, get it. It\u2019s them, not me \u2014 My numbers are better than they have ever been,\u201d he contended. \u201cThe new CNN Poll stated that \u2018TRUMP\u2019 is at 99% among Republicans and, among Republican Presidents, \u2018TRUMP\u2019 is at 53%, compared to Ronald Reagan at 18%, and Abraham Lincoln at 8%! Fox knows this, and so does everyone else!\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Further calling out Fox Corp. donations to Democrats, Trump went on, \u201cNo wonder FoxNews Ratings are collapsing, and they\u2019re going to go down a lot further. They\u2019re way down, not because of me, but because they are AGAINST me! This happened once before, and Fox almost collapsed. It\u2019s happening again!\u201d<\/p>\n

More than a week before the election, the president had similarly criticized Fox News<\/a> as he insisted the network was \u201cspending far too much time putting on the OPPONENTS of Republican Party Candidates, people that love our Country, and have Great Policies and Ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese American Patriots are being absolutely \u2018blurred out\u2019 by the Media, and Fox is doing little to help,\u201d said Trump. \u201cThat\u2019s the only reason this Race is close, if it is indeed close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as part of a stated intent to provide punditry on the election results, the endorsement-wielding head of the Republican Party set his initial sights on the major downballot upset in the Lone Star State, \u201cIf Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn\u2019t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn\u2019t have lost. He went back to his original formula, and it wasn\u2019t pretty!\u201d<\/p>\n\n

As for the remaining years of his administration, understanding that accomplishments would require reaching across the aisle, a call with CBS News<\/a> found the president offering,\u00a0\u201ccongratulations to the Democrats, and I look forward to working with you for the good of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump reminded that he \u201cwasn\u2019t on the ballot, and there was nothing that could be done about that,\u201d as he reiterated, \u201cIf I was, we would have won.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fault-finding featured President Donald Trump looking beyond the ballot to who he says \u201cbears responsibility for these losses\u201d after an administrative-crippling blue wave. Midterm trends and troubling favorability ratings heading into Election Night carried with them expectations of a good night for Democrats. After roughly a month of constant campaigning proved insufficient to hold off… Continue reading Trump blames Fox News for GOP election losses \u2014 then calls into the network to confront its coverage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}