And a few days later, another Fox anchor, Neil Cavuto, took the unusual step of cutting away from a live press briefing by White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany when she began making baseless claims about voter fraud.
“There is only one party in America trying to keep observers out of the count room, and that party, my friends, is the Democrat Party,” McEnany started out saying, then adding, “You don’t oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count. … You take these positions because you are welcoming fraud and you are welcoming illegal voting.”
The Fox cameras then shifted to a slightly flustered Cavuto, saying that he and the network had decided not to continue airing the briefing. “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” he said. “I just think we have to be very clear that she’s charging the other side as welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue showing you this.”
In recent days, even two of Trump’s loyalists on Fox have even begun to back away from the president. Laura Ingraham, a close friend of the president’s and an attendee at his election night party at the White House, started out supporting his conspiracy theory about the election, declaring that Democrats were trying to “destroy the integrity of our election process with this mail-in, day-of registration efforts, counting after the election is over, dumping batches of votes a day, two days, maybe even three days after an election.”
But she soon began to shift gears, telling viewers two days later, that Trump should “accept defeat” with “grace and composure.”
Said Ingraham: “If and when it’s time to accept an unfavorable outcome in this election, and we hope it never comes, President Trump needs to do it with the same grace and composure that he demonstrated at that town hall with Savannah Guthrie.”
“Losing, especially when you believe the process wasn’t fair, it’s a gut punch,” Ingraham continued. “And I’m not conceding anything tonight, by the way, but losing, if that’s what happens, it’s awful. But President Trump’s legacy will only become more significant if he focuses on moving the country forward.”
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