Fox News Predicts Disaster for Republicans in Midterms

SPEAKER_1 (0:12)

From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.

Todd Starnes (0:26)

All right, what? No, I'm not going to start out the show by saying, I told you so, but I did tell you, America. I told you so. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio show. No, it is an extravaganza. As we begin the march toward the midterm elections, about a month ago, I warned everybody about what was going to happen. No doubt that the polling data was going to skew heavily toward the Republicans, or rather the Democrats. Then that would be scaled back. And of course, that's where we are now. Most of the major polling has the Republicans within a three-point margin there. So that's going to give the pollsters cover for the weeks and weeks of disinformation they were spreading in these fake polls. So I told you, don't pay any attention to the polling data that's out there. And there's nothing wrong with talking about it. There's nothing wrong with having conversations and alerting you, but do not let your decision on whether or not to vote be impacted by these fake polls. You know, the other part of it is I warned you about the media coverage and to be very, very careful about any negative stories coming out. And there are a lot of negative stories. The very latest is involving Susie Wiles. You've got a number of the insiders in DC saying that Trump is ready to give her the heave-ho and bring somebody else in as White House Chief of Staff. Katie Zachariah, the new White House press secretary, is coming under all sorts of fire from folks because of her really lack of professionalism behind the microphone. I mean, is she going to get better? Probably, but again, for me, whoever is making the suggestions to the president, we need to have a conversation with those folks, because I'm not sure that President Trump's interests are being well-served right now by many within his administration. And look, for me, it's very simple. And then you've got the one Kimberly Guilfoyle, who now the latest news is that she kept a burn book and she's got all the goods and everybody and she may be willing to spill the beans. And that may be the case. I mean, it all very well may be true. But do you find it coincidental that all of this is coming out just before the midterm election? No, of course not. So you really can't believe any of this stuff. And again, it may be true. Hear me out. All of this may be true. We know that there are a lot of grifters who weaseled their way into the administration. No doubt about that.

But I'm going to wait until after the midterms to really do a deep dive on who these people are and why they have betrayed the president. Now, just think about this for a moment. And this is one thing that concerned me.

My eyebrow was raised.

When we got word that Caroline Leavitt was leaving the White House. Now, for me, the reason why my eyebrow was raised is because she is a very important puzzle piece for this administration. Her job, which she did incredibly well, was to get out there and defend the president's agenda and to defend the president himself. And Caroline Leavitt delivered every single day. Every single day, she went out there. She went to war with the media. Now, why would somebody like Caroline Leavitt leave the administration just before the midterms? And that was why my eyebrow was raised. Normally, if there's going to be some sort of a change like that, it would happen after the midterms because there's a certain time when you don't want to have any people leaving, departing, no matter what. You need stability. You need familiar faces. And now, especially three weeks out from the election, is not the time for on-job training. So for me, that was a big warning, a big red flag. Wait a second. Why is Caroline Leavitt leaving? And she originally told us it was what? To spend time with her family. She just had a baby. And of course, all of that made sense. Absolutely, you want to spend time with your family. But then they almost immediately announced that she was going to work at Fox News Channel as a contributor. So I'm sorry, which is it? You know, were you going to, were you leaving the administration to get a job at Fox? Or were you leaving the administration to go be with your kid? And right now we know that it was the Fox job, which again, would have been waiting for her. She would she would have been a great get either. You know, I mean, after the election. So again, I just there's something. So there are some things going on within the administration. No doubt about that. And there are a lot of people that are grifters, and they know that the clock is ticking and their days of grifting at the expense of the American people are about to be over. They will come to a conclusion. Now, let me just say, and by the way, hold on, I'll get to that in just a moment, but let me just say this.