Conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham, whose "The Ingraham Angle" has been a fixture of the network's lineup since 2017, sharply criticized Republican political consultants on Wednesday evening, accusing them of sitting on their hands at a moment she argued demands an all-hands-on-deck effort to save the party's majorities in Congress.

Ingraham contended that Republicans should abandon their usual playbook of waiting until September to begin airing campaign ads and instead deliver their message right now — that Democrats pose a grave threat to each and every one of the country's freedoms.

"I disagree with the conventional wisdom," Ingraham said. "I think that you have to hammer them every single day until November. Cannot wait."

She added that Beltway consultants "drive me nuts" because "they fly around in private jets, they collect a huge amount of money, and I think they're lying to these Republican candidates."

"This is going to be a brutal cycle. Republicans might pull it out; we all hope they do. But they have got to hammer that they're coming for your money, your gas-powered car, your air conditioner, everything you love, your private health insurance, and they're going to take it from you. Period, end of story," she said.

Her remarks come as President Donald Trump's poll numbers have cratered to all-time lows in recent surveys, and the Republican Party as a whole is flagging as well — a slide that has sent insiders into a panic as the GOP's odds fade of bucking the typical midterm trend of the opposition party prevailing. The November midterms will decide control of both chambers of Congress, with every House seat and roughly one-third of the Senate on the ballot.

That history is unforgiving to the party holding the White House: the president's party has lost House seats in nearly every midterm election since World War II, with 1998 and 2002 the notable exceptions. Republicans also enter the cycle holding only a narrow House majority, meaning Democrats would need to flip just a handful of seats to reclaim the chamber.

The administration, for its part, appears to be bracing for the inevitability of at least a Democratic House majority: Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner held a secret meeting with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss how a divided government could work next year.

Whether Republican campaigns break with the September playbook Ingraham derided will be measurable in early advertising spending, one concrete marker of how the party's internal strategy fight resolves before November.

Source: Raw Story