Fox’s Brit Hume Says Trump Should Ignore Talk of Having ‘Enormous Mandate’ Because ‘That Can Lead To Trouble’

Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume had a word of caution for President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.

Come January, Republicans will control the White House and both chambers of Congress for the first time since the first two years of Trump’s first term. Unified executive and legislative control has Republicans salivating at the idea of advancing their right-wing agenda.

Appearing on Special Report on Fox News, Hume called Trump’s victory “clear and convincing… but, whether it is a landslide producing a mandate is another matter.”

Hume noted that Trump’s vote total has now fallen under 50%, which hardly qualifies as a “landslide.”

“The other way to look at it is by states,” he said before noting that Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984. Trump won 31 this time around.

“I think the danger for the president here – or his team at least – might make the same mistake that Joe Biden made. Joe Biden won a narrow victory – convincing, perhaps, but narrow – in 2020.  And once he got control of the Senate and had both houses, he started thinking that he was gonna be the new FDR and was gonna pass all kinds of great social legislation, some of the results of which were an outbreak of inflation from which his candidacy and his campaign never recovered. So, you have to be careful about these things. Mandates, real mandates are rare, and landslides are perhaps even rarer.”

Hume stated that because of this and the fact that Republicans’ House majority is extremely narrow, “[T]he president would be wise to ignore the talk from his supporters about what an enormous mandate he has and what a great landslide he won because thinking that can lead to trouble.”

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