Republicans begin blaming midterm blowout on Trump, fearing results could hurt 2028 outlook: live updates

The hosts of Fox and friends collapsed in the face of media coverage of “hot” Democrats elected to Congress this week.

Aiming at “the left’s obsession with this new class of legislators,” the presenters pointed to a Vogue article describing Abdul El-Sayed and Jon Ossoff as “easy on the eyes” and “downright handsome” politicians.

Host Lawrence Jones compared the coverage to the magazine’s treatment of Melania Trump. “You had a real model, the first lady, she can’t be on the cover,” he growled. “But these guys manage to get on the cover of Vogue.”

60 Minutes is scheduled to air an interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, following the Republican Party’s crushing losses in the midterms, CNN reported.

CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat recorded the segment at the White House on Friday, the outlet reported.

Republican Anthony Constantino was expected to win New York’s 21st Congressional District, while Republican Jeff Hurd was expected to win re-election in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, The associated press reported Friday.

The projected results bring the Democrats’ House total to 253 seats, compared to 157 for Republicans as of Friday.

Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, offered no assurances of support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday.

Democrats have said they will push to impeach Hegseth, and administration officials will consider ousting him.

“What do you want to see Pete Hegseth do?” » a NewsNation host asked Comer.

“That will be a decision that President Trump will have to make,” Comer responded. “But I can tell you with a high level of confidence that there are a lot of questions about Hegseth. We have no idea what the strategy is in Iran. Nobody is happy with Iran, and I think Republican voters are more unhappy about what’s happening in Iran than Democratic voters.”

Before the midterm elections, it was suggested that Pete Hegseth might make a run for Marsha Blackburn’s Tennessee Senate seat, assuming it becomes vacant when she wins her race to become the Volunteer State’s next governor, as a way to escape angry Democrats at the Capitol.

Blackburn actually won the governor’s mansion, as it happens, but Hegseth wouldn’t be in the running to replace her after all, leaving him stuck inside the Pentagon — unless Trump fired him.

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has already found something he wants to work on with President Donald Trump: cutting aid to Israel.

The Michigan Democrat, who has been an outspoken critic of Israeli leadership during the Gaza war, which he calls a genocide, supported Trump’s idea of ​​cutting $4 billion in aid to Israel by the end of the year, saying he “would love to work with him to make that happen.”

“I don’t think we should continue to subsidize a foreign army that has done the worst things with our money,” El-Sayed told the hosts of the MS NOW show. Morning Joe THURSDAY.

“I actually don’t think we should continue to sell weapons to a country that is, once again, using our weapons to do horrible things. »

The ruby ​​red of Texas turned so blue in the Republican Party’s crushing midterm defeat that Democrat James Talarico received more early votes than Republican Ken Paxton received in total.

Talarico defeated Paxton by more than 5.4 million votes in a blue tsunami that hit their state, as well as other reliably Republican states such as Iowa and Kansas.

Paxton received 4,249,373 total votes, including 3,232,667 early votes, according to data from Texas Secretary of State Robert S Howden’s office.

Gina Hinojosa, the newly elected governor of Texas, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that data centers have a place in her state, but only if they benefit residents and are not imposed on communities without proper laws and protections.

Trump’s insistence on their necessity and his indifference to the objections raised by rural voters may well have cost Republicans their support this week.

The president has already issued his first threat to Hinojosa, who will succeed Greg Abbott in January, over his border security.

Federal prosecutors are actively pursuing a criminal investigation into the source behind the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal right to abortion.

Jasmine Fernandez reports.