Fox News host Dana Perino appeared to do some damage control for MAGA on Thursday after the Democratic midterms sweep.
“I would say no political movement lasts forever,” Perino said on “The Five” during a panel discussion Thursday. “And President Trump’s was longer because of the interruption in his two terms, right? Because of the Biden thing. So it’s a much longer time.”
The midterm elections Tuesday saw Democrats regain control of both the House and Senate and win over longtime red states, a stern rebuke of the GOP under Trump.
But Perino was focused on 2028, saying that the Republican Party is “looking forward” to reassessing its future with “a full-throated debate.”
“I don’t know how many people will run on the Republican side,” she said. “I don’t think that [Vice President JD Vance] will have that lane to himself, obviously, if the last 24 hours are any indication. We haven’t mentioned Ted Cruz. He was out there immediately, as well.”
Perino was referring to the Texas Republican posting a post-midterms autopsy on Wednesday that acknowledged the extremely obvious reasons for voter frustration on the heels of Vance’s own post-midterms analysis.
“And he’s been doing a podcast the last two years,” Perino noted of Cruz.
Perino’s take on the midterms was more subtle than that of her colleague Jesse Watters, who lamented on Wednesday that the GOP had “lost whites” to Democrats and said, “You can’t do that if you’re a Republican!”
But even he admitted that the Democratic “spanking” made sense, as Trump has long dismissed a nationwide affordability crisis exacerbated by his costly war on Iran. “If you’re going to make life more expensive for people, you have to be able to sell it,” Watters said.
Trump, meanwhile, has already shared a litany of excuses for the political wipeout.