When Rory Stewart made his infamous prediction that Kamala Harris was set to take the 2024 US presidential election – and proved somewhat wide of the mark – GB News unleashed a wave of mockery which has barely subsided since. Patrick Christys boasted on air that he had just “drunk a pint of Rory Stewart’s tears”, Emily Carver stated that Stewart was simply “wrong on everything” and Tom Harwood unkindly claimed the former Tory minister was “not the most socially comfortable human being”.
Presumably, though, GB News’s star presenter can be counted on to call these things right? On Tuesday night, as ballots began to close across America in the country’s midterm elections, evening host and Reform leader Nigel Farage reassured viewers that Donald Trump wasn’t in for the shellacking many were predicting.
“I don’t go with the consensus that Trump’s gonna get absolutely smashed,” he said. “Here’s why. Number one: actually, political science, get out the vote campaign, data… I think this Republican Party is way better than it was 10 years ago when Trump first became president, and Elon Musk hasn’t chucked in $450 million of his own money just for fun – he’s helping and working on that.
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“Yes of course the Iran War, the cost of diesel and gas, all of those things are not good. But look at the opponents! Who is the leader of the Democrats? Who’s it been for many, many years, because Biden was hardly there? You’ve got a new, hard left coming in.
“I think for all of those reasons we’re in for a big surprise tonight, or at least the consensus – and don’t forget, when Trump won in ‘16, the New York Times said there was a 98% probability of Hillary winning the election.”
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Now the elections are all but over, and the Democrats have won the Senate and the House, taking control of Congress for the rest of Trump’s presidency. Democrats picked up a string of victories in Republican strongholds, including Texas, Ohio, and Kansas – which last elected a Democrat almost 100 years ago.
And what has Farage said? His only post on X since the results began trickling in was to go back to banging on about small boats. Rats in a Sack would drink a pint of his tears, if only they weren’t 40% proof!
(Farage wasn’t alone in getting it wrong on GB News. His colleague Ben Leo, live from Dallas, Texas, reassured his viewers of a New York Times poll suggesting Democrat James Talarico was set to flip the Senate seat blue, said: “Just to mention, I don’t believe that poll whatsoever.” Talarico did.)
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