Brit Hume told Tucker Carlson something he definitely did not want to hear – that it was Trump’s unpopularity that lost the Virginia race.

Watch below:







Tucker Carlson tried to blame DNC workers showing up to the polls, but Hume says that Trump has stirred up the passions of those who are against him. Now they’re painting Gillespie as not *really* a Trump candidate – but if they make that their excuse here, then the midterms are going to be really bad. There needs to be some drastic course correction, or this enormous victory for Democrats will be a peek into our future…

This RCP analyst agrees:

Third, this is about Trump. There's just no getting around it. If his job approval had been in the mid-40s (where he was when he took office), Rs probably still would have lost a bunch of these seats. But a 38-ish% job approval made it worse. — Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) November 8, 2017

And so does Shapiro: