MAGA-aligned TV hosts and influencers who’ve been devoted to President Donald Trump have been faulting people around him for the midterm losses, gingerly avoiding assigning any blame to him.
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On President Donald Trump’s favorite TV shows, there is none of the election denialism that characterized his 2020 loss. But there is a whole lot of disbelief — and some early signs of disagreement about the best path forward for the Republican Party.

On Wednesday night the banner on Jesse Watters’ Fox News show asked “HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?” while Watters offered his answers: “Ultimately the election turned on the Iran war and to a certain extent the trade war,” he said, calling it a “two-punch combo.”