Trump on accepting midterm results: "Why wouldn't I?"

FOX 11 Los Angeles pairs his answer with a panel's question about how closely he tied Republican candidates to himself.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,017,089 views a day, 84 times a normal first day on this channel (12,075).

Trump accepts midterm election results

Nearly a million views in less than a day have made Donald Trump's brief answer an unusually widely watched moment on FOX 11 Los Angeles.

The station's Short, "Trump accepts midterm election results", includes a phone exchange from Fox News following Democratic victories in both chambers of Congress. Asked whether he will accept the results, Trump replies: "Yeah, sure, I'll accept them. Why wouldn't I?"

Back at the Los Angeles news desk, a co-anchor responds: "That was a big question." The discussion turns from his acceptance of the outcome to his place in the campaign. The male anchor contrasts the losses with the 2018 midterms and recalls Trump's appeal for voters to treat these races as a judgment on him: "He said, imagine that I'm on the ballot. So how much more could it possibly have been linked to him?"

The clip's reach stands far above the station's usual first day for Shorts. It also sits within a broader surge for FOX 11's election coverage: its report on Democrats taking Congress, California proposition updates and election-night livestream all drew unusually large audiences for their respective formats. Alongside the national result, the station has been following ballot measures on housing funding and taxing billionaires.

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The numbers

The Trump reaction clip is far beyond FOX 11's usual Short opening. Several of the station's longer election reports also drew substantially more views than usual.

the video's first day

usual first day here

12,075

this video

1,017,089

subscribers

1,370,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,405,724,099

views per day

2,540,152

typical day: 433,215

the video

views

977,297

likes

2,411

comments

3,915

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

KTLA 5

1,520,000

FOX 11 Los Angeles

1,370,000

CBS New York

1,200,000

CBS LA

1,170,000

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

1,080,000

FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth

1,020,000

As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.