“You’re seeing a lot of people trying to take advantage of the failure on Tuesday night, to go after Donald Trump. And that’s fine, people go after different people, but it seems to be a coping mechanism to neglect to deal with the fact that the Republican Party has failed Republican voters and failed the American people,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway during an interview on Fox News. “You have 75 percent of the country thinking we’re [going] in the wrong direction, you have a president with horrible approval ratings, you have an objectively poor economy. … This could not have been more fertile ground, and the Republican Party, the actual people who run the Republican Party, had an obligation to capitalize on it and they didn’t because they don’t have a ground game.”