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'I'm pissed': Laura Ingraham seethes after Fox News calls Georgia race

Alec Regimbal

Immediately after Fox News declared U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock the winner in Tuesday's Senate runoff race in Georgia, network host Laura Ingraham went on a diatribe against Senate Republicans, saying GOP leadership didn't do enough to help Warnock's conservative challenger — the football star Herschel Walker — win the seat. 

Speaking with conservative author Mollie Hemingway and Kellyanne Conway, a former senior adviser in the Trump administration, Ingraham said Republicans failed to generate as much enthusiasm for Walker as Democrats did for Warnock, whose win now gives Democrats a 51-49 majority in the upper chamber.  

"We felt this coming. To me, it never felt like the Senate Republicans wanted this guy in office. He was a Trump pick, they didn't like that," she said. "But there wasn't the intensity on the part of the Republicans as there was on the part of the Democrats. I felt it, you felt it, but we don't change anything." 

"We just keep doing the same thing over and over again," she added. "I'm pissed tonight, frankly." 

Ingraham's analysis is accurate. Walker, who won the Republican Senate primary in Georgia with the help of an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, was not a conventional candidate. The former athlete was beleaguered by several shocking scandals throughout his campaign, which put some conservative voters in a difficult position — they wanted a Republican in the seat, but may have had reservations about casting a ballot for a candidate like Walker. 

Meanwhile, the success of other Republican candidates in different statewide races in Georgia — such as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — suggests that some voters cast ballots for Republicans down the ticket, but chose to support Warnock, a well-respected Democratic reverend, in the Senate race. That so-called "split-ticket" phenomenon was not lost on Ingraham and her guests Tuesday night.

"There's no excuse, in Georgia, for us not to have done what Brian Kemp did," Conway said. 

Ingraham framed Tuesday's loss as a continuation of the poor showing Republicans made in last month's midterm elections, where Democrats made historic wins. She said GOP leadership in the Senate should have realized, based on the Democrats' success in the midterms, that this outcome was likely if they didn't do more to mobilize conservative voters and donors over the last four weeks. Ingraham also said the loss should serve as a lesson for future elections — namely, that Republicans can't count on winning key races in swing states like Georgia if they don't do more work on the ground.  

"This was winnable," Ingraham said. "... Isn't this like, a warning sign flashing? Are we just going to keep doing the same thing all over again?"