WEDNESDAY: As election day drew near, it turned into 5-on-none!

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025

Charlie Hurt gets it wrong: Those were solid Democratic victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. 

What will those outcomes signal to the president, but also to his team? That remains to be seen. 

With respect to the Fox News Channel, this brings us back to Charlie Hurt's recent performances, including his guest hosting spot on Monday afternoon's The Five.

Over the weekend, President Obama had appeared at a Norfolk rally in support of Candidate Spanberger. The piffle about it was general over The Five's Monday panel.

Producers even had Piers Morgan sitting in the one "Democratic Party / liberal" seat! Kennedy had sat in that seat on the previous Friday. As election day neared, the channel may have been pouring the agitprop on.

In the opening segment of Monday's show, the five like-minded panelists spilled with praise for the president's interview on 60 Minutes. "I give it an A-plus," Emily Compagno said.

In the second segment, the five reliables turned to criticizing Obama's speech in Norfolk. Young Master Gutfeld mentioned "poop" for the second time of the day, and Obama was criticized for the weirdness he displayed by his failure to endorse Spanberger's opponent.

All in all, it was vintage dumbness as practiced on The Five. When his turn came, Hurt said this:

HURT (11/3/25): Now he's pulling for the lady that he agrees with as opposed to the black woman who is extraordinarily successful. He also, at that same event that he did in Norfolk, he campaigned for Jay Jones and lectured to the rest of us about how politics has turned so dark and divisive, and we need to stop our dark, divisive politics, as he's campaigning for a guy who advocated assassinating his political opponents!

"Now he's pulling for the lady he agrees with!" Yes, that's what he said.

Here on campus, we had watched Obama's Norfolk speech. On balance, we thought it was very strong. We didn't remember any reference to Jones, the candidate for attorney general who had run into something resembling an October Surprise.

The past comments by Jones to which Hurt alluded were extremely odd. When the invaluable Rev published this transcript of that speech, we decided to give it a look.

We find no reference to Candidate Jones in Obama's remarks. On the most-watched of our flailing nation's "cable news" shows, piffle of this sort takes place all the time.

Rev has also transcribed Governor-elect Spanberger's victory speech. This morning, Joe Scarborough mentioned one part of what the winning candidate said.

We agree with Scarborough's reaction. A significant bit of electoral theory lies behind her remarks.

How do people win elections? We expect to return to what Spanberger said.