EXCLUSIVE: The Murdochs, the kingmakers of conservative media, are starting to lose confidence in Ron DeSantis, unimpressed by his campaign and its weak numbers, sources tell Rolling Stone.
However, even at the lowest points in the Trump-Fox relationship, the ex-president continued to enjoy a glut of support from an array of high-profile on-air talent and hosts at Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business. This includes primetime stars like Sean Hannity, who has been moonlighting for years as one of Trump’s key political advisers.
Another source with ties to Fox execs, Trump, and the DeSantis camp adds that Fox and the Murdochs “are in a corner. They’ve clearly gone all-in for DeSantis and now he’s not resonating. And now they have a new [primetime] lineup launching so they will be under a microscope.”just yet , the sources say — in part because they likely would have nowhere else to turn except to crawl back to Trump. In the meantime, the media mogul and his lieutenants can keep pressuring Team DeSantis for a course correction that Murdoch is starting to suspect may never materialize.Trump-slayer. So if he’s not immediately leading Trump in the polls, it’s easy to see how that can easily be spun as a let-down,” says Doug Heye, a former communications director at the Republican National Committee.
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