Britt Hume, a senior political analyst at Fox News, said Monday that Donald Trump’s “star is fading” among Republicans, saying Republicans now have no choice but to cast the former president ahead of the 2024 election. It warned that it faced a “bloody” battle to overtake.
Speaking to Special Reports anchor Brett Byer, Hume said Trump’s influence within the party was weakened by pushing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. He suggested that he started
Trump, who is widely expected to announce his 2024 candidacy on Tuesday, has come under fire for the Republican party’s poor results in the 2022 midterm elections. Many of the candidates he supported lost, Democrats won the U.S. Senate, and the House of Representatives ended up with a very small Republican majority.
“Looking at these election results, candidates following that line who agreed with him didn’t do particularly well,” Hume said. “In terms of opinion and influence, his star has faded. I think.”
Hume acknowledged that Trump was still a “big factor” but said “passing him for the Republican Party looking to 2024 could be ugly, bloody and painful.” .
“In 2024, many Republicans who supported Trump could be defected and dissatisfied,” he added. “So that’s their hardest job: trying to get around Trump.”
