Laura Ingraham Furious at Herschel Walker's Loss: 'I'm P***** Tonight'

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A clip of Fox News host Laura Ingraham lashing out about Herschel Walker's runoff defeat has gone viral on social media.

After Fox called Tuesday's Georgia Senate race for the Democratic incumbent, Senator Raphael Warnock, Ingraham said: "I'm p***** tonight, frankly."

In the 19-second video, which has been watched about 750,000 times on Twitter, she added that she was "mad" at the Republican Party leadership, accusing them of giving only lukewarm support to Walker, who had been endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

"I'd like to say this was surprising, but it's not. The Senate Democrats, I would argue, did a much better job," Ingraham said.

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Laura Ingraham speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 28, 2019, in National Harbor, Maryland. A clip of Ingraham discussing Walker's defeat has been watched some 750,000 times. Alex Wong/Getty Images

"We felt this coming. To me, it never felt like the Senate Republicans wanted this guy in office. He was a Trump pick, and they didn't like that.

"There wasn't the intensity on the part of the Republicans as there was on the part of the Democrats. I felt it, and you felt it," the TV host told conservative commentator Mollie Hemingway, who was on air with her.

"But we don't change anything! We have the same people in place in leadership. The same people in place, apparently, at the RNC—perhaps that's not changing. We are doing the same thing over and over again."

Hemingway agreed, calling Walker's defeat "offensive for Republican voters and donors."

Ingraham said she had previously felt the Georgia Senate race was "winnable." Newsweek has contacted her for comment.

Warnock's victory in the runoff, which was held after neither candidate received a majority in November's midterms, gives the Democrats a 51-49 majority in the upper chamber of Congress.

He received 51.4 percent of the vote against Walker's 48.6 percent. A video showing the moment guests at Walker's election party realized he had lost has been circulated on social media.

Although Walker's defeat had been widely predicted in the final weeks of the runoff campaign, it came as a further blow to Republicans after the anticipated "red wave" failed to materialize and high-profile Trump picks such as Mehmet Oz and Kari Lake lost.

The GOP has won a majority in the House of Representatives, however, after gaining close to 10 seats in the midterms.

Tuesday's victory was Warnock's second runoff success in two years. He unseated the Republican Kelly Loeffler in Georgia's 2020 special election.

Warnock said after the result: "After a hard-fought campaign—or, should I say, campaigns—it is my honor to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy: the people have spoken."

Update 12/07/22, 7:15 a.m. ET: This article was updated to add extra information.

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Giulia Carbonaro is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on the U.S. economy, housing market, property insurance market, local and national politics. She has previously extensively covered U.S. and European politics. Giulia joined Newsweek in 2022 from CGTN Europe and had previously worked at the European Central Bank. She is a graduate in Broadcast Journalism from Nottingham Trent University and holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations from Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy. She speaks English, Italian, and a little French and Spanish. You can get in touch with Giulia by emailing: g.carbonaro@newsweek.com.

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