Article in Mediaite by David Gilmour, 11/3/26
Headline: “Greg Gutfeld Gets Angry Text From Trump While on Air: ‘You Wouldn’t Believe This One…’”
“President Donald Trump rage-texted Fox News host Greg Gutfeld during a live broadcast on Election Day, demanding that he deliver a blistering attack to co-host Jessica Tarlov, who had just been reporting on political spam bombarding Americans’ phones as the midterms approached. . .”
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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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Article in The Washington Post by Scott Nover, 11/4/26
Headline: “A MAGA media civil war erupts over who’s to blame for the GOP’s thrashing”
Subhead: “Trump’s allies cite the Iran war, the economy and one another after Republicans’ election rout exposed deep divisions in the MAGA media world.”
“. . .These pronouncements from the Republican Party’s two standard-bearers did little to quell the finger-pointing from right-wing influencers and media personalities after the massive blue wave on election night.
“By Wednesday morning, the party’s media firebrands sought not only answers but also scapegoats. Commentators and influential right-wing personalities offered sharply different accounts of what went wrong. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 11/4/26
Headline: “Fox News suffers ratings slump on bleak election night for Republicans”
Subhead: “In early, preliminary figures, the news channel trailed several other networks in prime-time viewership”
“On a midterm election night that was a huge disappointment for Republicans, with Democrats taking control of the US House and Senate, the country’s most prominent conservative television network felt the brunt of viewer disillusionment with Donald Trump and his party, according to preliminary audience numbers.
“The Fox News Channel, which often leads in viewership on election night, appears to have come out far behind the competition. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/nov/04/fox-news-midterm-ratings
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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 11/4/26
Headline: “The midterm results are a crushing rebuke to Fox News’ Trump propaganda”
“. . .For Fox’s troubles, the network received a significant drop in viewership leading up to Election Day — one apparently triggered by disaffected Republicans changing the channel — and election night attacks from a president who called in and lashed out at the network for being insufficiently supportive. . .”
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/midterm-results-are-crushing-rebuke-fox-news-trump-propaganda
Article in The Bulkwark by Will Sommer, 11/2/26
Headline: “MAGA Preps for the World to End—Literally”
Subhead: “With Republicans fearing electoral doom, right-wing pundits send their audience to the bunker.”
“ROUGHLY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS FROM NOW, the Republican party could be looking at a set of catastrophic results in the midterm elections. If polls are to be believed, the party’s defeat could be severe enough to represent a repudiation of the party’s entire direction over the past decade.
“Yet pro-Trump media figures are urging their audiences to focus their attention on an even more dire possibility: a total global apocalypse. Whether it’s the prospect of a world-ending war, a debilitating cyberattack, or some other kind of catastrophe, luminaries on the right increasingly feel the end may be nigh. . .”
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-preps-doomer-prepper-for-the-world-to-end-literally
Article in Media Matters by Hanne MacDonald & Jack Wheatley, 11/2/26
Headline: “These 49 figures within the right-wing media ecosystem are claiming they have had contact with Donald Trump or the White House”
Subhead: “Since May, media personalities and election denial activists have made at least 123 claims about speaking with Trump or White House staff and even influencing policy”
“. . .Many of these individuals — who range from prominent election deniers to Fox News personalities and influential podcasters — claim to have discussed policy during phone calls and texts with Trump, meetings in the Oval Office, or other interactions with White House staff. . .”
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Article in AlterNet by Matthew Rosza, 10/29/26
Headline: “Celebration as Dan Rather exposes Fox News crash and burn”
“. . .’It was satisfying to learn that Fox “News, long the biggest blight on American journalism, is losing viewers just before a momentous election,’ reported Dan Rather and Team Steady on Thursday. ‘And it’s not a small drop. Fox has lost more than a quarter of its viewers compared to a year ago. It was the largest decline of any cable news channel in the month before an election in a decade, according to The Hollywood Reporter. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Zachary Pleat, 10/21/26
Headline: “Here are the right-wing media figures endorsing ‘despicable’ ad from Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy”
Subhead: “The ad features Democratic nominee Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who defended her husband’s reported sexual assault of Acton when she was a child”
“Multiple right-wing media figures are promoting an ad released this week by Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign targeting his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, featuring her mother calling her a liar. However, Acton has been estranged from her parent since the age of 12 in 1978, when her mother defended the candidate’s stepfather against accusations he had sexually assaulted Acton . .”
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Article in The Hill by Mallory Wilson, 10/23/26
Headline: “Trump spars with NBC reporter over Ramaswamy attack ad”
“President Trump engaged in a vigorous back-and-forth Friday with NBC reporter Monica Alba. . .”
“Reporters asked Trump about fellow Republicans denouncing the ad that was created by Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidate for Ohio governor. . .”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6168553-donald-trump-vivek-ramaswamy-ad-nbc-reporter/
Article in Poynter by Angela Fu, Ren LaForme and Amaris Castillo, 10/19/26
Headline: “Opinion | The White House has a workaround when networks refuse to replace CNN”
Subhead: “Since the White House restricted CNN’s press access, other networks have refused to replace it. It has turned to Real America’s Voice.”
“Over the weekend, CNN was once again blocked from traveling with President Donald Trump on Air Force One as part of the White House pool.
“And once again, conservative network Real America’s Voice was waiting in the wings, ready to provide pool footage after the other major networks declined to take CNN’s place. . .”
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https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/white-house-cnn-ban-real-america-voice/
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Article in Media Matters by Monica Rodriguez, Janos Balazs & Torri Lonergan, 10/15/26
Headline: “Discontent in Spanish-language conservative media illustrates GOP’s deteriorating Hispanic coalition”
“Since early in his second term, President Donald Trump has been facing criticism from Spanish-language right-wing media figures over his approach to the economy, the Iran war, and mass deportation. This fall — as some of these figures have warned that Republicans will suffer in the midterm elections as a result of the administration ‘failing’ on immigration and economic policy — polls suggest that Latino voters could be a major swing demographic in November. . .”
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