Trump reacts to balance of power shifts in 2026 Midterms — FOX 10 Phoenix

[0:00] Now, we have a soundbite from President Trump talking to Fox News about the election. [0:09] Take a listen. [0:11] Honestly, look, I've been doing a lot of great things for a long time, and it's just a point in time, Brett. [0:17] Just a point in time is the way it is. [0:20] There was a mood in the air, I guess. [0:22] And, you know, if you look, I shouldn't feel guilty because virtually I saw you on your show the other night [0:29] saying that almost never does the sitting president, no matter how good or bad or Republican or Democrat he or she is, [0:39] but no matter how good the president is, you lose. [0:43] I don't know why. [0:44] Nobody's explained that, but it's almost every single time. [0:48] And the one time, you know, it's twice they won. [0:52] Many, many, many years. [0:54] And one of the times there was a World Trade Center. [0:56] So, you know, that was like an automatic gimme. [0:58] So they won really effectively one time. [1:02] Nobody's ever explained to me why. [1:04] If you're doing it because we've done a great job. [1:06] We, you know, you talk about the border. [1:08] We closed the border. [1:09] We had an open wound. [1:12] It was horrible. [1:13] What we had was absolutely horrible. [1:15] We've done so many different things. [1:18] And, you know, we have trillions and trillions of dollars flowing in. [1:22] We have, think of it, the wealth that this nation's made in the last short period of time, [1:28] since I've been in, $25 trillion. [1:31] We're $25 trillion rich here. [1:34] Under Biden, we were losing. [1:36] We were losing. [1:37] $25 trillion. [1:38] And we have 10. [1:40] Okay, so we also got a statement about Greg Abbott, the former now governor of the state [1:48] of Texas. [1:49] So Gina Hinojosa defeating Greg Abbott and Trump throwing Abbott under the bus, like multiple [1:56] times, saying the governor of Texas, if he hadn't become a rhino in the last six months [2:02] of his political life, he wouldn't have lost. [2:05] He went back to his original formula, and it was not pretty. [2:09] So the state of Texas, not only James Tallarico, who did extremely well, and Ken Paxton was just [2:17] not a great candidate. [2:20] James Tallarico won. [2:21] But Gina Hinojosa defeated Greg Abbott, who had been a longtime governor. [2:26] I had been in, you know, 2004, 2006. [2:30] I was covering him as an attorney general. [2:32] So he's been in state politics in the state of Texas for a very long time. [2:37] So anyway. [2:38] And I will say, out of all the words to describe Greg Abbott, I would not have thought of rhino. [2:45] Yeah. [2:46] As a matter of fact, I would have thought of him as like tip of the spear for Donald Trump. [2:50] And he, I mean, when immigration enforcement was ramping up, I mean, Texas was like battleground, [2:58] right? [2:58] And they really, he was really kind of in step, aligned with the Trump administration. [3:06] Yeah. [3:06] He kind of seen this pattern, though, that, you know, longtime allies. [3:10] And if you just look at his track record, I mean, just none of that's true. [3:13] And he's been very helpful to the president on board. [3:16] But it's kind of like John Cornyn. [3:18] I mean, John Cornyn was very, very supportive of the Trump administration. [3:24] And Cornyn didn't get the endorsement. [3:26] And, you know, James Tallarico, he won handle. [3:30] I mean, it wasn't even close. [3:32] James Tallarico moped the floor. [3:35] Yeah. [3:35] This is going to be interesting going into the, I mean, we're only two years away from another [3:39] presidential election. [3:40] And in the back of my head, I'm wondering, what's going through J.D. Vance's head tonight, [3:44] Mark Rubio? [3:45] Yeah. [3:45] Because really, if this is a mandate on President Trump, then I don't know. [3:52] They can't get away from it, right? [3:54] It defines them. [3:55] And so, heck of good luck on messaging their way out of that one. [4:00] I think the biggest thing I'm going to be looking at is one presidential race that started [4:02] about two years out now. [4:03] I mean, they start out way longer than you said. [4:07] You said you were already going to be, like, polling. [4:08] Oh, yeah. [4:08] We're polling in, like, two weeks, which, again, basically, it's going to start in the next [4:13] few weeks. [4:13] So, what are you polling? [4:14] Like, who would you support? [4:16] Well, not only do you support, but, like, what are you looking for in your presidential [4:19] candidates? [4:20] Again, just really starting to do a baseline of that race because, again, they start two [4:25] years out now. [4:26] And especially now, after these results, I think what's going to be interesting to watch [4:30] is to see, you know, especially when someone doesn't have the power they used to and seeing [4:34] this kind of repudiation on Trump or, like, these policies, it's like, again, people are [4:40] going to start jockeying for other positions. [4:41] But I can tell you that they're not going to be hanging around him much longer seeing, [4:46] you know, the results after tonight. [4:48] I mean, this is frankly traumatizing, the type of results for tonight. [4:51] Like, I knew it would be bad. [4:52] I didn't expect it to be this bad. [4:54] But I guess, you know, I guess he's seen something new, I guess, and this is it. [4:59] If you live long enough, right? [5:00] Yeah, as Stan said, if you live long enough, I'm like, Stan, you're like double my age. [5:03] But Stan was here earlier, by the way. [5:07] Marcus is young.