Trump’s Private Fury at Fox Goes Public Ahead of Midterms

Donald Trump has launched an angry attack on Fox News, accusing the network of giving Democrats more airtime and attention than Republican candidates and their views.

The former president issued the broadside Monday morning as he prepared to travel to Wichita for a campaign rally supporting embattled Republican Senator Roger Marshall ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.

“Fox spends more time defending Dumocrats, and putting on their views versus their Republican opponent, than at any time in the history of Fox News. It’s ridiculous!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Fox News is trying too hard to be politically correct! Watch my big Kansas Rally today on RSBN [Right Side Broadcast Network]. Great early coverage!”

The latest outburst marks another attack on Fox News in less than three weeks, despite the network’s long-standing status as a leading platform for Trump’s MAGA movement.

The current wave of criticism began September 30, when Trump questioned why Fox was featuring Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov “and every Democrat, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me.”

A few days later, he complained that Fox & Friends had failed to cover his “packed house” rally in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump accused the program of spending “more time talking to Communists, Socialists, and Dumocrats, often without rebuttal.”

Trump renewed his criticism October 6, calling independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn a “sleazebag” and accusing Fox host Martha MacCallum of taking a softer approach toward Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. “She never interviews me like that,” he wrote.

“Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA,” Trump wrote. “They have totally lost their way!”

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Trump’s complaints came after a Fox News poll showed his approval rating had fallen to 36 percent, a low for his second term, while 64 percent of voters said they disapproved of his performance. The same survey gave Democrats a nine-point advantage over Republicans heading into the midterm elections.

Republicans were widely expected to lose control of the House, while their Senate majority was also facing a serious challenge.

Election forecaster Nate Silver’s latest model gave Democrats a 75 percent chance of winning the Senate. They needed a net gain of four seats to take control of the chamber.

Marshall’s Kansas seat was among those considered vulnerable. The Republican was in a tight race with Democrat Adam Hamilton, an Overland Park pastor.

Kansas had not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932, but the Cook Political Report shifted the contest to toss-up status earlier in the month.

Trump endorsed Marshall last week, describing him as “great” and “a wonderful person.” He said the senator had received a “bum rap” because he was required by law to request money owed by patients.

Marshall, an OB-GYN who practiced in Great Bend for two decades before entering Congress, sued more than 700 of his patients over unpaid medical bills, the New York Times revealed last month.

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The senator has dismissed the report as a Democrat-planted hit job, insisting only ‘a very small, small, small fraction of the unpaid bills even went to collections.’

Trump’s Fox tirade comes as Republicans brace for potentially catastrophic losses next month, with GOP strategists and leaders already pointing fingers at each other, and even at the president.

House Republicans are blaming the Senate. Senators are privately pointing at Trump. And vulnerable candidates are lashing out at their own party committees.

‘If it happens, there will be plenty of blame to go around,’ New Jersey Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew warned of the impending losses, per Politico.

A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey released Sunday put Trump’s approval even lower than Fox’s, at 33 percent of US adults, with 66 percent disapproving and 52 percent strongly disapproving.

The finger-pointing follows a string of alarming internal polls that reportedly show Republicans in danger not only in traditional battlegrounds, but in once-safe red districts.

Particularly infuriating for House members is the Senate map, where Republicans have been forced to dump eye-watering sums into races they never expected to defend.

The leading Senate GOP super PAC and Trump’s MAGA Inc. have spent nearly $200 million trying to rescue Ken Paxton in Texas, where he is locked in an unexpectedly tight battle against Democrat James Talarico.

Trump has already decided who will take the blame if Paxton falls.

‘If Ken Paxton loses, it will be because of weak and ineffective Political Hacks like John Cornyn and Karl Rove,’ he wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.

‘All of this money that was expected to go to the House, for the most part, is now being wasted on the Senate because they f****d up so bad,’ one national GOP operative fumed, per Politico.

But some Republicans believe the real problem sits in the White House.

Retiring Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon told Politico that Trump’s weak polling and high unfavorable ratings are dragging down GOP candidates, while others privately blame his tariffs and the Iran war for anger over rising costs.

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna has turned her fire on the National Republican Congressional Committee, accusing party leaders of getting distracted by internal leadership jockeying.

‘I am also getting calls from members wondering what is going on at the @NRCC,’ Luna wrote on social media.

‘Sounds to me like some in leadership need to focus on winning races instead of gaming their next steak donor dinner,’ she added.

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has mocked National Republican Senatorial Committee consultants, telling reporters last month he trusts his own reading of the polls over strategists because all they care about is ‘buying Porsches.’

Kennedy also said he plans to spend $5 million to $8 million from his own campaign war chest in states he sees as crucial to holding the Senate.

Trump allies are now warning candidates that attacking Democrats may no longer be enough, urging them to hammer a positive economic message on how they will lower living costs.

NRSC chairman Tim Scott remains defiant, telling reporters on a press call earlier this month that he expects his party to hold its Senate majority and possibly expand it.

Cook Political Report analysis published last month projects Democrats will pick up at least 15 House seats and between one and five in the Senate.