Fox News host Tucker Carlson admitted defeat over his midterm predictions, saying he’d “never gotten anything wronger in my life.”
In an appearance at a Turning Point USA event, a conservative youth organization, Carlson gave a sobering analysis of the past month, saying it had changed the way he thought “about a lot of things.” He described the failure of his midterm predictions as a “humiliation” but said he was all the better for it.
“The last month has … really changed the way I think about a lot of things, which, when you’re 53, is a rare occurrence,” he told the crowd of young conservatives. “So, it’s kind of nice to have something pierce those assumptions and learn something new. And the midterm elections taught me a number of new things. And I should preface my story of what I’ve learned by telling you that you never learn anything except through pain and humiliation. I wish that weren’t true, but, unfortunately, no one has put me in charge of the rules of nature, so that is the law, and it’s unchangeable.”
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“But you never learn anything from succeeding. I have never learned anything from succeeding,” he added. “I’ve only learned from failure and particularly humiliation.”
He went on to add a comedic touch to his speech.
“So, I did the thing that I think all adults should do when confronted with their own failure. I went pheasant hunting for three days. No, I did. I literally did. I literally did,” he said. “I went to South Dakota and stood in the cold. Walked through cornfields. I did. I did. And there was a ton going on, and I did it anyway.”
“And I did it because I needed some silence to marinate in my shame,” he said.
Carlson then went on to share the lessons he had learned from the humiliating experience.
“This was a fantastic reminder that we can’t really predict events very well, as people, actually. There is a limit to our insight about the future, to our predictive powers,” he said. “That is a human limitation that we are all bound by because, repeat after me, we are not God.”
“We should start by knowing our own limitations. We are limited,” he added. “That is the beginning of wisdom.”
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Prior to the November midterm elections, Carlson was vocally confident that a “red wave” was coming, even guessing that Republicans could take the New York governor’s mansion. Candidates he pushed most strongly, such as Joe Kent and Blake Masters, ended up being defeated by their Democratic opponents.
