Fox News contributor: “When Donald Trump himself is not on the ballot, his ideas don't win”
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From the November 5, 2025, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): Donald Trump's policies are working. Last night, blue politicians won in blue cities. Do we need to get the messaging right heading into the midterms? Yes. But Donald Trump's methods, again, are working. Joe Biden's took us to 9.1% inflation. I've got the data, I've got the facts, and President Trump, I guarantee you, is going to share those facts in about 51 minutes.
EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): Your takeaways?
MARIE HARF (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well look, Democrats didn't just win in blue places. They broke the supermajority in the Mississippi state legislature. They flipped seats in Texas that had never even been competed recently. They, in parts of Virginia that are deep red, the average I think was six points towards Abigail Spanberger. In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill got a bigger margin than Pat Murphy — than Governor Murphy did a couple years ago. So, it's not just that we won in blue places. Democrats won all over the country.
And I think a few things are clear. Number one: When Donald Trump himself is not on the ballot, his ideas don't win. And all of these candidates, look, Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger, are very different candidates than Zohran Mamdani. They are moderates, they worked in the national security field. But they talked about affordability. And Donald Trump himself even admitted the shutdown, that Republicans are getting blamed for it and that they need to talk more about affordability. Donald Trump properly diagnosed the problem.