Trump gets a reality check on Fox News for 'hemorrhaging' voters
President Donald Trump faced blunt criticism from an unlikely venue on Friday as a Fox News panelist warned that his political influence is rapidly deteriorating with key voting blocs – and may be beyond repair before the midterms.
The bleak analysis for the president came as Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall pushed back forcefully during a segment on the network’s “The Five,” saying she rejected the framing of the MAGA leader offered by other panelists.
“I have a different view of everything everybody has said so far,” Marshall told the panel. The liberal radio talk host pointed to broad dissatisfaction with Trump’s leadership, citing grim numbers across multiple demographics.
“Three-quarters of Americans find that the economy specifically is fair or poor,” she said. “There are more than half of Americans who disapprove of the president’s job performance.”
Marshall went on to argue that the problem goes far beyond standard political losses. Trump, she emphasized, is “hemorrhaging – not like losing – hemorrhaging independent voters, hemorrhaging youth voters, hemorrhaging Latino voters.” She added bluntly that the MAGA leader is “not going to get it back by the midterms.”
Looking forward to the new year, the Fox News contributor said the data favors Democrats.
“In the predictors for the midterms, the Dems take the House even in the most conservative-leaning predictors and polls,” she said, noting that “Dems have flipped 25 Republican-held state seats so far.”
“Republicans have flipped zero,” she added. Marshall also dismissed arguments that the Democratic Party is without a leader or adequate message.
“We don’t have one leader, and you don’t need to have one leader this far out from the general,” she said as she blasted her fellow Fox News panelist for their harsh observations about former President Joe Biden’s Christmas card.
“Biden is not running for president; he is a former president,” she said. “I don’t care where he stands in a Christmas card because he’s not running, he is not the leader of a party.”