The day after Republicans underperformed expectations on this yr’s midterm elections, Fox Information host Jesse Watters provided an evidence: President Joe Biden is simply too likable.
“I can’t consider John Fetterman received!” Watters started, making clear his shock at the Democrat’s defeat of the Trump-endorsed Mehmet Oz, who Watters stated was untrustworthy and usually “not an important candidate.”
The Fox host then criticized Republicans for lagging behind their opponents within the early vote tally.
“There is no such thing as a Republican early vote technique. Can anyone inform me what that's? Republicans vote on Election Day. Democrats vote for 5 weeks,” Watters stated, reflecting what voting information for the midterms tended to indicate. “So, there’s this mass mobilization marketing campaign that’s underway in these early voting states and Republicans are sitting it out.”
Watters, one in all a number of Fox Information stars who confidently predicted a powerful GOP displaying, then sought to attract what he considered as some positives from Tuesday’s outcomes, like 2020 election-denier Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) edging out Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
“[Republicans] are going to have the Home,” he predicted, “and it isn't going to be the most important margin of all time. It’s going to be larger than they are saying it's proper now.”
“This was a pink wave if you happen to’re wanting at Florida,” he continued, earlier than citing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams’ loss to incumbent Republican Brian Kemp and Beto O’Rourke’s failed bid for governor of Texas. However Watters finally acknowledged how Democrats and President Biden seem to have emerged from the midterms in a great place.
“There’s simply not the hatred for Joe Biden that there's for Barack Obama and for the Clintons. There’s not a ‘hate Biden’ vote that’s on the market,” he stated, including that there's for Trump as properly. “Folks simply don’t really feel the identical ardour towards the man that additionally they really feel for different individuals.”
Watters would go on to lament Democratic benefits amongst single girls, younger voters, and amongst city populations extra broadly. Voters between the ages of 18 and 29, as an illustration, backed Democrats by a margin of 63 p.c to 35 p.c, one exit ballot discovered.