And Fox News about the "red wave" that did not come true: Pro-Trumpers and anti-Trumpers are accused

Republicans in the United States of America (USA) are having difficulty discerning the reason for their not-so-good results in the "midterm" elections for Congress, state governors, prosecutors and secretaries of state, after months of forecasting a "red wave" that did not materialize. Fox News, which traditionally favors American conservatives, writes tonight.

According to this media network, mutual finger-pointing within the party has already begun, and questions are being asked about its future.

The pro-Trump and anti-Trump wings of the Republican Party are exchanging accusations, while other Republicans say they are simply confused by what happened at the polls.

"Clearly something was not right. I mean, the target was missed," a Republican official in the US House of Representatives told Fox News.

"Was it the pre-election polls, were it the issues that we felt were important to people?"

According to him, "the question that should be asked - assuming that the Republicans become the majority in the House of Representatives - is 'what is our mandate and what should we do'?

"That's probably what's going to keep me up tonight," the anonymous Republican representative added.

It is expected that this party will take control of the US House of Representatives from the Democratic Party, but with a smaller majority than predicted, while control of the Senate depends on the still unknown results of the election races in Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.

In Georgia, the candidates go to the second round, scheduled for December 6, because none of them won more than 50 percent of the votes of the voters.

But all this did not stop internal party fights. Opponents of former US President Donald Trump, who is still an important political figure among Republicans, say that Trump and his claims regarding the 2020 presidential elections are burdening the party, which had an advantage over the Democrats due to the poor economy and the low popularity of current President Joseph Biden.

"I would say there's a growing impression among Republicans that those candidates, who were seen as deniers of the (2020) election results, didn't do well tonight," Republican consultant Brendan Steinhauser told Fox.

One Republican congressman in the House of Representatives also told Fox: "If it wasn't clear before, it should be clear now: We have a problem with Trump."

Another source inside the Republican Party commented: "It turns out that the quality of the candidates matters."