It’s possible that Tucker Carlson, host on the Fox News channel, missed that day in preschool where you learn about how hating others mostly just hurts you.
The media personality's predictions about November’s midterm elections saw the GOP winning in a large landslide. That, by the way, did not happen, and Carlson just admitted why his predictions were so off.
As a guest on YouTuber Charlie Kirk’s show, Carlson said his “hatred” of liberal people led to his inaccurate predictions of a red wave.
“That loathing clouded my judgment,” Carlson told Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, in an interview released on Monday. “I was like, 'I dislike these people so much,'” he said.
"What they’re doing is so wrong," he continued. "It is helping so few people and hurting so many. It’s so immoral on every level that I just want it to be repudiated."
He continued, explaining why that affected his claims on the show.
“And I wanted that so much, not because I like the Republicans — I really dislike them more than I ever have — but I dislike the other side more,” he said.
He said he did learn something from all of this, however.
“I did learn that, like, I have no freaking idea what goes on in American politics.”
This is not the first time the TV personality has had to answer for his flawed predictions.
At a conservative event last month, he said he'd “never gotten anything wronger in my life.”
Carlson did try to keep things positive in his interview, and he told Kirk that he thinks Republicans will eventually find something of a silver lining in the way things turned out for the party.
“I look at 2016 in the opposite way,” he added. “We thought this was the ultimate triumph. We really did. And I was thrilled by it … and then I spent, you know, four years feeling like really disappointed and sad.”
