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In the days leading up to Tuesday’s crucial midterm election, Fox News hosts and commentators went into overdrive, confidently pushing the notion that Republicans would pick up “historic” victories and crush the Democrats in an unprecedented “red hurricane.”
By the end of the night on Tuesday, however, amid Democrats defying expectations and the promised red wave turning into little more than a trickle, many of those same Fox News stars began to do a bit of introspection and wonder what went wrong.
While the narrative of a massive GOP victory had played out on Fox News airwaves for months ahead of this week’s elections, the conservative cable giant did hedge its bets over the summer when liberal anger over the reversal of Roe v. Wade and legislative wins by the White House suggested Democrats could overcome the traditional headwinds.