Laura Ingraham Stops Trump Cold When He Brings Up 2020 Election, Pivots to Question from Audience

Fox News host Laura Ingraham immediately interrupted former President Donald Trump at a town hall in Greenville, South Carolina on Tuesday when he began discussing the 2020 election.

“The way you win is by swamping them,” Trump said of his election strategy in 2024. “And we’re gonna swamp. I’ll tell you what. I did great in the first election. I did much better in the second election, I hate to tell you.”

Ingraham jumped in.

“We have some interesting news coming out of New York, by the way,” she said, teasing an unfavorable poll for President Joe Biden. “A New York poll that just came out, which we’re gonna get to. But Mr. President, Kelly is in the audience and has a question about foreign aid.”

Trump falsely maintains the 2020 election was rigged against him. In the weeks after losing, Trump and several Fox News guests and hosts advanced baseless and sometimes bizarre conspiracy theories about rampant election fraud. According to one story, voting machines provided by Dominion Voting Systems helped fix the election in favor of Biden. Dominion sued Fox for defamation and ended up settling for $787.5 million in April 2021.

The lawsuit has been a sore spot for the network, much of whose dirty laundry was aired in court filings. Correspondence from several Fox hosts and other employees indicated that they did not believe Trump’s false claims. However, they felt compelled to “respect” Fox viewers by giving them inaccurate information they wanted to hear.

“Respecting this audience whether we agree or not is critical,” host Sean Hannity texted a producer in November 2020.

Ingraham has repeatedly urged Trump not to re-litigate the 2020 election. “[P]lease, for the love of God, stop talking about 2020,” she said in July.

The host has also been quick to shut down others who make claims about the election. In August, John Eastman declared on her show that he “had lots of evidence of fraud.”

“I haven’t seen that evidence,” she said. The audio and visuals suggested Eastman – a lawyer who told Trump that Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the election – made remarks that appeared to be edited out of the pre-taped interview.

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