‘This constitutes living in reality’: Laura Ingraham finally breaks Biden victory to Fox News viewers

Conservative news networks have amplified Donald Trump’s baseless voter fraud conspiracies as the president’s legal team has fought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

But after the president announced that his administration would begin the transition process “in the best interest” of the US, Fox News host Laura Ingraham said definitively that, “unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and frankly an unlikely manner, Joe Biden will be inaugurated” on 20 January.

While she said that there remain “serious questions” within the president’s legal disputes that have largely been dismissed in courts across the US, following an election that she claimed was “rife with problems and potential fraud," her remarks “do not constitute being a sellout to the conservative populous movement.”

On Monday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle, the host said that “to say this constitutes living in reality.”

“If I offered you a false reality, if I told you that there was an excellent, phenomenal chance that the Supreme Court was going to step in and deliver a victory to President Trump, I would be lying to you,” she said.

Ms Ingraham’s appeal to reality a day after Tucker Carlson suggested on his show on Monday that the “election was not fair” and alleged that Democrats had “rigged the election” with expanded vote-by-mail options during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr Trump shared his commentary on Twitter, which flagged the post: “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”

In the days after Election Day, Ms Ingraham shared similar claims, including airing an interview with an anonymous Nevada poll worker, whose face and voice were obscured, as they claimed that a “Biden van” delivered ballots.

On Monday, the General Services Administration, the federal agency responsible for the transition to the president-elect’s incoming administration, announced that it would begin the process, ending what House Democrats called an effort to “block” Mr Biden from the White House, at Mr Trump’s behest.

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