In her book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, Maggie Haberman, a reporter for the New York Times, said Murdoch had been keen to wash his hands of Trump after the 2020 election. Some Murdoch outlets, including Fox News, notably backed away from Trump over the summer, giving him less airtime. Even when Trump won, Murdoch was unconvinced, reportedly privately calling him a “fucking idiot” following one conversation about immigration. Murdoch had his doubts about Trump before the businessman and reality TV star ran for president in 2016. The biggest loser was Donald Trump - Fox News The biggest winner of the midterm elections was Ron DeSantis. Brian Kemp, the unendorsed Republican, cruised to victory in the governor’s race against Stacey Abrams, his Democratic opponent. Herschel Walker, the retired football star endorsed by Trump in Georgia for the Senate, will head to a runoff against Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, after neither man won more than 50% of the vote. Chris Sununu, the Republican governor who did not receive Trump’s endorsement, won re-election easily, by more than 15 points. In New Hampshire, Trump-backed Don Bolduc lost decisively to his Democratic opponent, incumbent US senator Maggie Hassan. What was most crushing for Trump were the states where candidates he endorsed were outperformed by those he hadn’t. Trump-backed candidates lost in several key states on Tuesday, including Pennsylvania, where Mehmet Oz, a celebrity doctor running for Senate, and Doug Mastriano, an election-denying extremist running for governor, were both thwarted. It added: “Now Mr Trump has botched the 2022 elections, and it could hand Democrats the Senate for two more years.” He then sabotaged Georgia’s 2021 runoffs by blaming party leaders for not somehow overturning his defeat.” “The GOP was pounded in the 2018 midterms owing to his low approval rating. “Since his unlikely victory in 2016 against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeat,” the editorial said. The piece was just as scathing as the headline running through nine races this November, the paper said Trump had effectively tanked through his continued election denial, his various wars with more moderate Republican candidates and his general unpopularity nationwide. A subheading added: “He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 20.” “Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser” was the verdict of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board. The Post cover offered the most visceral insight into Murdoch’s thinking, and its contempt was far from an outlier in the mogul’s news empire. Next to the picture of Trump as an egg perching precariously on a brick wall, the text goaded: “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall – can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?” Today's cover: Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms /vpI94nKuBh- New York Post November 10, 2022
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