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Not 'much going for them': Fox legend tramples GOP’s chances this year

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Mediaite reports Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume “did not sugarcoat his assessment “of Republicans’ chances heading into November’s midterms. On Wednesday’s Special Report, Fox’s Bret Baier pointed to a recent Fox News poll showing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, 51 percent to 48 percent. Mediaite reports the same poll last month showed Rogers leading by four points. It also revealed nearly 70 percent of likely voters in Michigan claimed cost of living is an “extremely” important issue in the race, leading all others by 20 points or more. “Brit, you look at those polls. Obviously, it’s a close race, and we’ve seen this in a number of these races,” Baier pressed. “What do you make of it?” In Hume’s own words, he didn’t appear to make anything good of it for team red. “Well, in the Michigan race, that’s a margin-of-error number,” Hume told Bair. “It may indeed have turned slightly in El-Sayed’s favor. But I don’t thin

First report: Fox’s Brit Hume Tsk-Tsks GOP Senator Over Embarrassing Error: ‘He Brought This on Himself’› — mediaite.com, 1d