As the 2026 midterm election results rolled in late Tuesday and Democrats appeared headed for major victories nationwide, Fox News’ Brit Hume declared Donald Trump to be a lame-duck president.
The conservative network’s chief political analyst made the declaration while warning that Democrats, who at that moment were poised to regain control of Congress, would face increased scrutiny after years in the minority.
Democrats will “be called upon to show what they got,” Hume said, arguing the party had largely run its midterm campaign on its opposition to Trump and his war with Iran, a strategy he suggested could only take them so far.
“And Trump is going to be a lame duck,” Hume said, predicting the president’s political influence would be significantly diminished for the remainder of his second term.
“I mean, because he’s only got two more years to go. So people are going to say, ‘OK, Democrats, what you got?’ And it’s going to be an interesting question what it is,” he continued.
Hume predicted Democrats would form a fractious coalition, with newly elected democratic socialists likely pulling the party to the left.
“There’ll be people who say, ‘You know, we need to maybe try to get a few things accomplished,’” he said. “But I don’t know how far that will go because the hatred of Trump in the constituency of the Democratic Party is so intense and has proved so enduring that I’m not sure that even with Trump in lame-duck status that they can move away from that.”
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