Fox News is scrambling to find a replacement for Tucker Carlson.
After the network booted Carlson ratings plunged 30 percent.
And now Donald Trump will be red with rage when he sees who replaced Tucker Carlson.
Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones took their turn trying to fill Carlson’s shoes.
Neither host caught on with the Fox News audience.
Now Fox is turning to former Trump administration press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to fill in for Carlson this week.
McEnany was a strong Trump supporter but ever since the midterm elections McEnany continues to speak highly about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Trump supporters suspect Fox News brass is hoping McEnany catches on at 8 p.m. so the network can install a pro-DeSantis host in primetime as part of Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s plan to leverage his media empire to defeat Trump in the 2024 GOP primary.
This development will likely stick in the craw of Trump who took a shot at McEnany over the fact that Trump surged to a nearly 30-point lead over DeSantis in GOP primary polls.
“I guess Kayleigh is no longer speaking so favorably about DeSanctimonious now that his Polls are shot!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Trump’s jab came in response to McEnany criticizing Trump for an interview where he discussed Carlson’s firing and other topics.
“Trump excels when he talks policy, emphasizes his experience, and reminds Americans how safe our country was on his watch,” McEnany wrote on social media.
On previous occasions McEnany also all but begged DeSantis to enter the race declaring DeSantis the “hottest governor in Republican politics.”
“This is the case, what you’re watching right now polling at 3%, for Governor Ron DeSantis to get in now. People say, ‘will he get in? Will he wait?’ How can you wait when you are currently the hottest governor in Republican politics, seeing how hard it is to regenerate that attention almost a decade later?” McEnany stated.
More recently McEnany suggested on Fox News that DeSantis would close the gap with Trump once he officially enters the race in June.
“Polling suggests that President Trump has this wide lead, but I think that once Gov. DeSantis declares, you’re going to see that lead tighten,” McEnany declared. “He hasn’t even declared his candidacy yet.”
McEnany was not always a resolute Trump supporter.
During an appearance on CNN in 2015 McEnany smeared Trump as a racist for his comment that drug dealers, murderers, and rapists were among the illegal aliens crossing the border.
“To me, a racist statement is a racist statement. I don’t like what Donald Trump said,” McEnany said at the time.
McEnany also blasted Trump’s call to deport illegal aliens as McEnany claimed the mainstream Republican position was granting amnesty to illegal aliens.
“I think the mainstream Republican does not want to send the illegal immigrant back to Mexico. I think that they’re here to stay, that’s not the American way. We’re not going to ship people across the border. There has to be some path to citizenship. So, in that sense, I don’t think Donald Trump is consistent with mainstream Republicans. There’s going to be a path,” McEnany emphasized.
As the 2016 primary wore on and it became clear Trump was going to win McEnany jumped on the Trump train.
But now it looks like McEnany is reverting to form and Fox News is hoping a pro-DeSantis host can win over the audience that left after Carlson’s firing.
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