Hannity Calls Out Fox Colleague Steve Doocy for Fact-Checking Trump: ‘Are You Going Left On Me?’
Fox News host Sean Hannity joined Fox & Friends on Monday morning and needled co-host Steve Doocy for a fact-check he offered regarding a misleading claim from former President Donald Trump, repeated by Hannity on the program.
The exchange came after Doocy noted that the electorate in New Hampshire might favor Nikki Haley.
“There are 300,000 Democrats, 300,000 Republicans, 400,000 independents. If they all show up, they’re going to make a big difference,” Doocy argued, referring to independent voters possibly turning out in the GOP primary for Haley.
“It definitely is a possibility I don’t happen to like – I love the people in New Hampshire, I love the state of New Hampshire – I don’t like their system. What they call open primary, where people, you know, they were switching in the last number of weeks from Democrat to independent so they can wreak havoc inside the Republican Party,” Hannity replied.
Doocy chimed in to clarify that the cut-off to switch parties was actually months ago on October 6th. Last week, Doocy also debunked the claim in a discussion of Trump slamming Haley for courting Democrats, of whom less than 4,000 switched parties. Trump took to Truth Social to attack Doocy for correcting him.
Hannity ignored Doocy’s correction, continuing, “Their thinking is okay if we help one candidate in this case, it would be Nikki Haley get over the hump then. Okay. That’s more money that whoever the inevitable Republican candidate is, it seems like Trump by a long shot. I think if Trump wins this tomorrow by the margins, we’re seeing it is over. I think a question for Nikki Haley, who I think ran a great campaign. Ron DeSantis ran a great campaign all the, you know, all the Monday morning quarterbacks don’t mean a thing to me. He went to all 99 counties, Ron did in Iowa.”
“Ultimate retail politician,” interjected Doocy.
“And he went out. He asked people for a vote in any of the year. What did he have, 21, 22%. That would be a great showing in Iowa, but this I keep saying about Donald Trump that he defies all conventional political gravity,” Hannity continued.
“That’s an understatement,” shot back Doocy.
“Well, to you it is. What’s happened to you, Steve? Are you moving to the left of me? What are you doing?” Hannity jested.
“I am screen left right now,” Doocy replied with a smile.
“That’s true of all the court cases. All of this that’s happened to Donald Trump is not helping him,” added co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
“It’s certainly. That’s where it defies conventional political gravity. You think somebody gets arrested or somebody gets arraigned that, oh, your poll numbers are going to go down,” Hannity replied as the conversation then pivoted to Trump’s legal trouble, which the co-hosts blamed on the Democrats.
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