Article in Media Matters by Noah VanDowe & Zachary Pleat, 11/5/26
Headline: “‘A clown show’: The right-wing media blame game over the midterms is full steam ahead”
Subhead: “Reeling from Republican losses, conservative hosts blamed each other, the party, and Donald Trump himself”
“Following the 2026 midterm elections, which resulted in massive Democratic victories to flip control of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as an end to decades of Republican dominance in Texas and other Southern and Midwestern states, right-wing media commentators wasted little time before searching for scapegoats. . .”
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Article in Status by Natalie Korach, 11/4/26
Headline: “MAGA’s Midterm Meltdown”
Subhead: “After Democrats’ historic victory Tuesday night, MAGA Media figures are turning on one another over the GOP debacle – and telling Status the party must move on from Trump”
“. . .By the end of the night, of course, the picture looked dramatically different. Democrats had delivered a stunning rebuke of Republicans, flipping longtime GOP strongholds in the Senate, including Texas and South Carolina, and leaving right-wing media figures scrambling to explain how they had so badly misread the electorate. . .”
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