Fox News host Laura Ingraham said she is “pissed” at the Republican Party following Herschel Walker’s loss to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Georgia runoff election on Tuesday.
“We felt this coming. To me, it never felt like the Senate Republicans wanted this guy in office. He was a Trump pick, they didn’t like that … but there wasn’t the intensity on the part of the Republicans as there was on the part of Democrats,” Ingraham said on her show Tuesday night. “We have the same people in place in leadership. The same people in place, apparently, at the RNC, perhaps that’s not changing. We just keep doing the same thing over and over again. I’m pissed tonight, frankly. I’m mad.”
Walker’s defeat on Tuesday caps what has been a disappointing midterm year for the Republican Party despite a favorable political environment.
Walker is also the last of a slew of Trump-endorsed candidates to lose in a general election after winning their Republican primary.
Several of Trump’s allies in conservative media have blamed the former president for Republicans’ lackluster performance in the midterms and have called for new leadership heading into the 2024 presidential election.
