Trump’s Private Fury at Fox News Erupts Publicly Before Midterms

Donald Trump has launched a sharp attack on Fox News, accusing the network of spending more time defending Democrats than presenting Republican perspectives.

The former president issued the broadside Monday morning as he prepared to travel to Wichita for a campaign rally supporting vulnerable Republican Senator Roger Marshall ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.

“Fox spends more time defending Dumocrats, and putting on their views versus their Republican opponent, than at any time in the history of Fox News,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It’s ridiculous!”

He added: “Fox News is trying too hard to be politically correct! Watch my big Kansas Rally today on RSBN [Right Side Broadcast Network]. Great early coverage!”

The complaint is the latest in a series of attacks Trump has directed at the network in less than three weeks. Fox News has long been regarded as a central media platform for his MAGA movement.

The latest string of criticism began on September 30, when Trump questioned why Fox had featured Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov and “every Democrat” discussing what he said were negative views of the Republican Party and himself.

Several days later, he accused Fox & Friends of overlooking his “packed house” rally in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump claimed the program spends too much time interviewing “Communists, Socialists, and Dumocrats, often without rebuttal.”

He renewed the criticism on October 6, labeling Nebraska independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn a “sleazebag” and faulting Martha MacCallum for what he considered overly sympathetic treatment of Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. “She never interviews me like that,” he said.

“Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA,” Trump wrote. “They have totally lost their way!”

The Daily Mail has contacted Fox News for comment.

Trump’s latest attacks came after Fox’s polling showed his approval rating had fallen to 36 percent, a low for his second term, while 64 percent of voters disapproved of his performance. The survey also found Democrats holding a nine-point advantage over Republicans heading into the midterms.

Republicans are widely expected to lose control of the House, while their Senate majority is also facing a serious challenge.

The latest model from election forecaster Nate Silver gives Democrats a 75 percent chance of taking control of the Senate. They would need to gain four seats overall to capture the chamber.

Marshall’s Kansas seat is among those considered vulnerable. The Republican is locked in a close race with Democrat Adam Hamilton, a pastor from Overland Park.

Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. However, the Cook Political Report shifted the contest to toss-up status earlier this month.

Trump has endorsed Marshall, describing him in a Truth Social post last week as “great” and “a wonderful person.” He also said the senator had received a “bum rap” because he was legally required to seek repayment for money owed by patients.

Marshall, an OB-GYN who practiced in Great Bend for two decades before entering Congress, sued more than 700 of his patients over unpaid medical bills, the New York Times revealed last month.

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The senator has dismissed the report as a Democrat-planted hit job, insisting only ‘a very small, small, small fraction of the unpaid bills even went to collections.’

Trump’s Fox tirade comes as Republicans brace for potentially catastrophic losses next month, with GOP strategists and leaders already pointing fingers at each other, and even at the president.

House Republicans are blaming the Senate. Senators are privately pointing at Trump. And vulnerable candidates are lashing out at their own party committees.

‘If it happens, there will be plenty of blame to go around,’ New Jersey Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew warned of the impending losses, per Politico.

A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey released Sunday put Trump’s approval even lower than Fox’s, at 33 percent of US adults, with 66 percent disapproving and 52 percent strongly disapproving.

The finger-pointing follows a string of alarming internal polls that reportedly show Republicans in danger not only in traditional battlegrounds, but in once-safe red districts.

Particularly infuriating for House members is the Senate map, where Republicans have been forced to dump eye-watering sums into races they never expected to defend.

The leading Senate GOP super PAC and Trump’s MAGA Inc. have spent nearly $200 million trying to rescue Ken Paxton in Texas, where he is locked in an unexpectedly tight battle against Democrat James Talarico.

Trump has already decided who will take the blame if Paxton falls.

‘If Ken Paxton loses, it will be because of weak and ineffective Political Hacks like John Cornyn and Karl Rove,’ he wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.

‘All of this money that was expected to go to the House, for the most part, is now being wasted on the Senate because they f****d up so bad,’ one national GOP operative fumed, per Politico.

But some Republicans believe the real problem sits in the White House.

Retiring Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon told Politico that Trump’s weak polling and high unfavorable ratings are dragging down GOP candidates, while others privately blame his tariffs and the Iran war for anger over rising costs.

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna has turned her fire on the National Republican Congressional Committee, accusing party leaders of getting distracted by internal leadership jockeying.

‘I am also getting calls from members wondering what is going on at the @NRCC,’ Luna wrote on social media.

‘Sounds to me like some in leadership need to focus on winning races instead of gaming their next steak donor dinner,’ she added.

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has mocked National Republican Senatorial Committee consultants, telling reporters last month he trusts his own reading of the polls over strategists because all they care about is ‘buying Porsches.’

Kennedy also said he plans to spend $5 million to $8 million from his own campaign war chest in states he sees as crucial to holding the Senate.

Trump allies are now warning candidates that attacking Democrats may no longer be enough, urging them to hammer a positive economic message on how they will lower living costs.

NRSC chairman Tim Scott remains defiant, telling reporters on a press call earlier this month that he expects his party to hold its Senate majority and possibly expand it.