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Fox News Pundit Brit Hume Admits No Republican ‘Red Wave’<!-- wp:html --><p>Fox News</p> <p>As Democrats currently seem to be outperforming expectations in their House election races, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-breaks-into-fox-news-election-night-coverage-to-sow-doubt?ref=home">Fox News</a> commentator Brit Hume conceded late Tuesday that voters did not usher in a “red wave,” as some on the right had predicted.</p> <p>“I thought the political conditions were such that would suggest a red wave,” Hume said, echoing Sen. Lindsey Graham to NBC News <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-graham-sounds-sad-trombone-admits-theres-definitely-not-a-republican-wave?ref=home">earlier in the night</a>. “The polling said otherwise. And I was skeptical of the polling. The polling has held up pretty well tonight. They called these races close, one way or another — certainly within the margin of error.”</p> <p>Republicans were <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pollsters-have-no-fcking-idea-whats-going-to-happen-during-2022-midterm-elections?ref=wrap">projected to</a> pick up at least 20 seats in the House, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/11/04/gingrich_2022_prediction_senate_will_go_3_to_5_with_pickups_in_nh_nv_az_ga_without_runoff_44_seats_in_house.html">predicting</a> “about 44.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundit-brit-hume-admits-no-republican-red-wave-in-2022-midterm-elections?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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As Democrats currently seem to be outperforming expectations in their House election races, Fox News commentator Brit Hume conceded late Tuesday that voters did not usher in a “red wave,” as some on the right had predicted.

“I thought the political conditions were such that would suggest a red wave,” Hume said, echoing Sen. Lindsey Graham to NBC News earlier in the night. “The polling said otherwise. And I was skeptical of the polling. The polling has held up pretty well tonight. They called these races close, one way or another — certainly within the margin of error.”

Republicans were projected to pick up at least 20 seats in the House, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicting “about 44.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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