Steve Doocy Reminds Fox & Friends Co-Hosts That Trump ‘Doesn’t Say He Lost the Election, Actually’

Steve Doocy politely reminded his Fox & Friends co-hosts that while former President Donald Trump is effectively running as an incumbent, he lost the 2020 election yet “doesn’t say he lost.”

At issue are GOP primary contenders, which appears to be settling into a two-person race between Trump and Nikki Haley. Ron DeSantis skips the New Hampshire primary to focus on Haley’s home state of South Carolina.

Echoing comments made by another morning show host on another cable network, Doocy referenced a DC insider he spoke to recently and noted Trump’s 51% victory in the Iowa Caucus is no great shakes, given he’s effectively running as an incumbent and should be getting closer to 80% of the GOP vote in Iowa as a result.

“The thing about Donald Trump in Iowa and across the board, he’s running essentially as an incumbent, right? Right,” Doocy said.  “Well, he said this incumbent only got 50% of the vote in Iowa, and 50% wanted somebody else. Ultimately, he said, and I heard another DC insider saying the same thing. You know, an incumbent Republican president running for reelection should be up in the 80 or 90 percentile. Otherwise, you’re going to have trouble in your own party.

“Obviously, he’s the former president, but you have other Republican people that are in the race,” Lawrence Jones pushed back. “So he’s not an incumbent president right now. He lost the last election, and he’s coming back and saying, look, making his case to voters.”

“You know, he didn’t say he lost the election. Actually,” Doocy corrected Jones.

Brian Kilmeade appeared to defend the former president’s election denialism, or at least his pivoting, saying, “He’s actually not even bringing that up anymore,” perhaps suggesting that because he’s no longer lying about a rigged or stolen election, he should perhaps get a pass.

Watch above via Fox News.