Day Two questions

We live in a catchphrase culture, so which one will stick: “Blue tsunami?” “Blue-nami?” “Republican Red Wedding?” The Drudge Report is trying out “ORANGE CRUSH” with a photo of Trump looking heavily bronzed and uncomfortable.

>> How will progressive media outlets capitalize on this latest “vibe shift” in American politics?

>> Will Democrats in Congress move to restore some of the public media funding that Republicans rescinded last year? PBS and NPR are certainly hopeful.

>> How will Democratic control of Congress change Brendan Carr’s bully-the-broadcasters approach at the FCC?

>> How prominent will newly elected Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed be on the national airwaves? El-Sayed is appearing on ABC’s “The View” in studio tomorrow morning. James Talarico is joining the show remotely today.

>> Should analysts reassess some of their suppositions about what Trump’s re-election meant? “A lot of people over-indexed the results in 2024, which in hindsight was just one iteration of that year’s global anti-incumbency wave,” Ishaan Tharoor of The New Yorker wrote overnight. He argued that this year’s results are much more meaningful.

>> “It turns out a weekend Fox & Friends host might not be a reassuring beacon of competence to Americans,” Erick Erickson drolly wrote this morning. Are Trump’s Fox News hires like Pete Hegseth now on the way out — and will some of them wind up back on TV?

>> “Tech billionaires suffer as Democrats drub Republicans” is one of CNBC’s top headlines right now. How are moguls like Jeff Bezos feeling today?

>> This wave is “also about corporate control, corporate power,” as Tony Dokoupil said on CBS last night. Which companies will Democrats scrutinize, and will one of them be CBS and CNN’s parent, Skydance?

>> Will right-wing media brands that have been wedded to Trump for the past decade now feel free to reposition themselves and pivot away from him? We’re already seeing some of this due to the war in Iran. (See The Daily Caller’s shift.)