Records Show Fox and G.O.P.’s Shared Quandary: Trump
Posted on AllSides March 9th, 2023
From The Left
Doug Mills/The New York Times
ANALYSIS
“Do we have enough dead people for tonight?”
It was a week after the 2020 elections, and Tucker Carlson — along with Fox News executives and other hosts — had watched with panic as Fox viewers, furious and disbelieving at President Donald J. Trump’s defeat, began to turn against the top-rated network. The viewers believed Mr. Trump’s claims that a widespread conspiracy of voter fraud was behind his loss. And as Mr. Carlson’s nightly 8 p.m. hour approached, the host pushed his producers to give the viewers what they wanted....
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