Fox News host Laura Ingraham voiced genuine concern Tuesday about Republicans and their chances in the 2026 midterm elections, pushing back against total confidence from her guest Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
Katie Miller, a former spokesperson for President Donald Trump’s administration, argued on “The Ingraham Angle” that Republicans are “getting stuff done,” deporting undocumented workers and creating “the hottest economy in the world” — and thus have little to fear.
“I’ve said this again and I’ll say it one more time, President Trump has accomplished every single one of our policy platforms from the [Republican National Convention],” she said Tuesday. “When has that ever happened? That’s why Democrats are floundering.”
Democrats swept key races across the country earlier this month, however.
Former Reps. Mikie Sherrill (N.J.) and Abigail Spanberger (Va.) respectively won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, while Californians voted “yes” on Proposition 50 — which will allow state legislators to redraw congressional districts ahead of the midterms.
Ingraham showed less confidence that the 2026 midterms would bode well for Republicans, noting that Virginia’s Democratic Attorney General-elect Jay Jones defeated his Republican opponent in November despite a considerable scandal that broke mere weeks earlier.
Jones had written in text messages in 2022 that then-GOP state House Speaker Todd Gilbert should get “two bullets to the head” and might change his political views if his wife saw her own child die, a source familiar with the matter told the National Review.
Jones apologized for his comments during a debate in October and later won the election.
“We had Jay Jones in Virginia win after it was divulged that he wished his opponent to be murdered and his opponent’s children to be murdered,” said Ingraham. “That guy wins by … five points in the end. So if that can happen, that’s fairly recently that he said that.”
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, agreed that Republicans are in trouble.
He highlighted an upcoming special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district as a result of former local Rep. Mark Green (R) resigning. Meadows noted that the district has long been reliably Republican, but that Democrats could flip the seat.
“But it’s not just happening in Nashville,” warned Meadows. “We should be concerned.”
The former Trump aide added that growing pro-Democrat sentiment “should be a five-alarm fire across the country” for Republicans, as so-called “radical” leftists are not only running for office — but “getting elected” and defeating their right-wing opponents.
Ingraham used that moment to put a damper on Miller’s confidence from earlier in the show, and admitted in conclusion, “Well, Katie, one thing that we should also see, Mark is right, the midterms right now look ugly — unless the Republicans really get serious.”
