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Fox News cut away as soon as Trump praised Tucker Carlson during his rally speech in South Carolina on Monday. President Trump on Monday spoke at a sold-out event in Summerville, South Carolina, where he leads by 30 points in the Republican primary polls. Thousands of supporters waited in line hours before Trump’s arrival. Trump was on fire during his speech in Summerville. “Biden has done more damage than the five worst presidents combined,” Trump said. “They rigged the presidential election of 2020 and we’re not going to allow them to rig the presidential election of 2024.” Trump took another...

Rupert Murdoch, the powerful right-wing media mogul who built and oversaw one of the world’s most influential news empires, announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of his companies, Fox Corporation and News Corporation. “For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Murdoch, 92, wrote in a memo to employees. “But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams.” As the leader of Fox and News Corporation, which publishes influential broadsheets such as The Wall Street Journal...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says he is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, with his son Lachlan to head both companies. In a memo to employees, Murdoch said "the time is right" for him to take on "different roles". Murdoch, 92, launched Fox News in 1996. It is now the most watched TV news channel in the US.

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of the board of both Fox Corp. and News Corp., the companies said on Thursday. The move will be official in November. Murdoch, 92, will be appointed chairman emeritus of each company. Lachlan Murdoch, one of his sons, will become sole chairman of News Corp and will continue as Fox Corp.’s executive chair and CEO. “Our companies are in robust health, as am I,” the elder Murdoch said in a note to employees. “We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years – I certainly am, and plan to be here...

Center for Vaccine Development director Dr. Peter Hotez said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Republican lawmakers and Fox News were responsible for 200,000 needless COVID deaths. Discussing his new book, Hotez said, “We’re looking at 200,000 Americans, who needlessly died, needlessly perished, because they refused a COVID vaccine, after vaccines were widely available during the Delta and Omicron waves in the last half of 2021 and 2022.” He continued, “It was politically motivated. It happened started in the CPAC conference in Dallas in 2021. The conservative conference said first are gonna vaccinate you and then they are going to...

Karl Rove’s article one month ago today … 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/6Ha9GBhRZG— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 16, 2023

Corrupt and lacking the mental soundness to serve effectively as president. That’s what voters think of the two candidates who currently look most likely to be their 2024 presidential choices. A majority of 61% say Joe Biden doesn’t have the mental soundness needed for the job he holds. That sentiment has risen steadily over the last three years. It’s up 5 points since last year, up 13 points compared to 2021, and up 16 points since 2020. […] While more voters see Biden lacking mental sharpness, fewer believe he is dishonest. …

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (right) tried to make his case on Fox News to become Donald Trump’s 2024 Republican presidential nominee, but the network’s news ticker continued to undermine him. DeSantis appeared on the network Friday to explain the steps he is taking to ensure his victory in next year’s Republican primaries, including visiting 55 of Iowa’s 99 counties. “We’ll be in those early states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina — making the case for people, answering their questions, shaking their hands,” DeSantis said, “and doing what we need to do to be able to show that we will...

'I think at the end of the day, it's very fluid.' Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t worried despite national polls that show him roughly 50 points behind former President Donald Trump. During an interview on the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” the Governor downplayed the importance of a fresh Fox News poll showing Trump ahead of him 60% to 13%, and a Quinnipiac poll with a 62% to 12% spread. “I think it’s a state-by-state thing. So we’re focused our efforts on the early states. I mean, if it was a national Primary, we’d have a different strategy and we’d be...

Desantis can barely keep himself together during this Fox segment. He’s on the verge of a meltdown No composure whatsoever. Totally not Presidential material pic.twitter.com/OsKDWhSLte— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 15, 2023

Another national survey presents bad news for the Florida Governor's White House hopes. A new national poll shows trouble for Ron DeSantis, not just in the 2024 GOP Presidential Primary but also in a General Election. The Fox News survey conducted between Sept. 9 and 12 shows DeSantis in second place in the Primary, but 47 points behind Donald Trump. The former President has 60%, with DeSantis’ 13% putting him 2 points ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy. DeSantis is 10 points further behind Trump than he was in the August poll, which showed a 53% to 16% spread. When second-choice polling...

DeSantis continues to lose ground as Ramaswamy holds steady Three weeks after the first Republican presidential primary debate, the latest Fox News survey finds Donald Trump has increased both his lead in the race and his strength of support. Sixty percent of Republican primary voters back Trump in the primary race, up from 53% in the Fox News pre-debate August survey. Trump did not participate in the August 23 GOP debate hosted by Fox News. At 13% support, Ron DeSantis sees a downtick of 3 points since the debate, while Vivek Ramaswamy holds steady at 11%. Next is Nikki Haley...

For the first time in the sorry history of the Fox News poll, former president Donald Trump leads His Fraudulency Joe Biden.This is probably because 61 percent do not believe Biden is mentally sound enough for the job. The remaining 39 percent are not mentally sound enough to be polled.Currently, Fox shows Trump leading Biden nationally 48 to 46 percent.Fox has consistently polled on the Trump v. Biden question going back to 2019. Over four years and around a dozen polls, Trump’s best showing against Biden was in April 2020, a tie at 42 percent. Besides that, Fox frequently had...

Despite the best efforts of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, their own pollster Daron Shaw duplicates an identical polling outcome from the most recent three. [Poll Data Here]President Trump is growing his support base, and Ron DeSantis is losing even more ground.[Data Source]It’s important to keep in mind that Fox News has been desperately trying to prop up the campaign of Ron DeSantis, giving him soft interviews and pushing his infomercials every week. Yet even Rupert Murdoch is now having to admit DeSantis just doesn’t have the support of the base Republican voters.FOX NEWS – Three weeks after the first...

Governor Ron DeSantis is pledging to "clean house" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and says he will install his current, highly controversial Surgeon General at the nation's top public health agency, should the Florida Republican win the White House. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who DeSantis hired away from the University of California, Los Angeles, ... "The surgeon general, a well-known Covid-19 vaccine skeptic, faced a backlash from the medical community after he [went] against guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics. [and] against mandatory Covid-19 vaccination." ... In its deep profile of...

FOX News Media’s Stuart Varney and Dana Perino will co-moderate the second Republican presidential primary debate alongside Univision's Ilia Calderón on Sept. 27 on FOX Business Network. "We are very proud to have Stuart Varney and Dana Perino co-moderating the second debate with Univision to provide Americans with a comprehensive view of the qualifying candidates vying for the Republican nomination for president," FOX News Media President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace said. FOX Business will host the debate from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley, California.

On Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said on her show “The ReidOut” that Fox News clamming former President Donald Trump’s mug shot will increase his support among black voters is “creatively racist.” Network host Katie Phang said, “They can now parade a mugshot, make millions off it, dupe their followers into paying money to buy merch, to be able to support this man, when it’s an insult to the intelligence of communities of color to suggest they believe he is some type of folk hero now because he managed to get a mugshot. Mugshots are not badges of honor.” Reid...

Donald Trump remains on top of the polls among Republican presidential candidates, but the gap between the former president and his onetime political protégé could be narrowing following the first GOP debate. A new poll from Public Opinion Strategies — a polling firm working for the DeSantis' campaign — shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis closing in on Trump among Iowa voters. The poll, obtained by Fox News Digital, interviewed 400 Iowa likely GOP caucus-goers and included a ballot test that saw DeSantis rise from 14% support up to 21% post-debate. Trump slid by one percentage point, from 42% to 41%....

By midday on Thursday, a little more than 12 hours after it was posted, the 46-minute sit-down had more than 200M views. Regardless of the way X counts 'views' - each time a user scrolls past the video, even without watching any of it, the tally rises - cable news executives will be unsettled by the numbers. Critics say X's metrics are not a reliable gauge of success and point to the fact engagement - likes, shares and comments - was still below 1 million on Thursday morning. But as a comparison, none of Fox News' X posts about its...

Fox News’s first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election exceeded expectations and brought in 12.8 million total viewers, according to data released by Nielsen ratings....Former President Donald Trump, who skipped Wednesday night’s debate to join Tucker Carlson for some counter-programming, claimed early Thursday morning he eclipsed all of television: “President Donald J. Trump’s blockbuster interview with Tucker Carlson reached over 100 million views on X less than 4 hours after premiering on the platform,” read a release from his campaign PAC, ....Of course, that’s not the whole story as “views” on Twitter are not remotely comparable to cable news...