March 27, 2023

Fox Business host Stuart Varney bashed Donald Trump's political future repeatedly this morning.

Varney listed Trump's infatuation with January 6, impending indictments, and threats of violence against prosecutors, as alienating to independent voters. (Ya think?)

Varney opened his 10 AM EST hour discussing Trump's Waco sedition rally.

"Trump gathered his base in Waco, Texas, Saturday. It was a classic Trump rally. Flags everywhere. He said he won the 2020 election, but the voting was rigged against him," Varney said. "And he claimed to be the victim of a legal system weaponized against him."

"Prior to the rally, Trump was sounding off on his possible indictment by New York DA Alvin Bragg. He called Bragg an animal and appeared with a baseball bat threatening death and destruction," he said.

Varney then dug in.

"I have to wonder about a presidential candidate taking that kind of approach. Okay, the base, maybe 30% of Republicans, will stick with him no matter what he says or does," he said.

"But the rest of the party and independent voters? Do they want to return to slash, burn, and insult politics?" Varney asked.

Varney then discussed new polling in Iowa and New Hampshire that showed DeSantis doing well.

Varney told his audience how the Waco audience went silent when Trump started mocking the Florida Governor. Varney finished his almost two-minute diatribe against Trump this way:

"Republicans like Trump policies; they don't much care for his style. They would like him to change, but he won't," Varney said. "He may win some primaries -- but he won't when the general because the base is no longer big enough, and this time around, he won't carry independents."

At the end of the above video, I added his clash later in the program with Trump sycophant Rachel Campos-Duffy, who claimed the US has become Venezuela.

"How do you think independents in this country will react?"

"I don't think he's trying to win independents right now. I think he's trying to win the primary," Campos-Duffy replied.

"He may get them, but if he doesn't have the independents, he can't win," Varney said.

Looks like Varney took his cues from another Murdoch source, The New York Post: Trump won’t change, and that shows he can’t win. But Murdoch is having it both ways: his hosts dump on Trump, and his "contributors" defend Trump.

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