Laura Ingraham will debut her new TV show, “The Ingraham Angle,” at 10 p.m. tonight on the Fox News Channel.

The show will address the issues “cutting through the heart of America,” Ingraham told a group of Fox News and conservative personalities gathered for her kickoff party in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.

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Ingraham, introduced by Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of Fox News, promised she would not forget the middle of America.

“Tom Wolfe said the parentheses are the coasts, and America is in the middle,” said Ingraham. “We forget sometimes about the middle of America … That’s America.”

Ingraham’s rise, partly attributable to her connection to the heartland, wasn’t a surprise to some of her longtime fans, who expected good things to happen for her after she fought the good fight, year after year. Ingraham built an especially strong following in “flyover” America — the red states and red counties chock-full of blue-collar and conservative voters with whom she loved to speak.

“She is direct, articulate, informed, and genuinely understands their concerns, and respects her audience,” said Robert Kaufman, a professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, in an email to LifeZette on Sunday night. “She also is always prepared and plays for four quarters, as sports people would say. Her audience admires her fortitude and integrity.”

For Ingraham, a happy conservative warrior, it has been a journey of firsts to get here. After a brief legal career, including a stint clerking for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, she began penning op-eds for newspapers, and then appearing on cable TV in the 1990s, on MSNBC. In 2001, she launched her own radio show, “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

In 2007, Fox News picked her up as a regular contributor, and she began filling in for hosts such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. In the meantime, her radio show became a nationwide hit, and she became the most listened-to female radio host in the United States.

But her star rose to new heights when it became apparent she had her finger on the new populist pulse of the nation.

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In 2015, she founded LifeZette, and the news and commentary site focused on faith, pop culture, and parenting issues along with the news Ingraham always spoke of: bad trade deals, illegal immigration, a bloated federal government, and more.

In 2016, her star rose even higher when then-candidate Donald Trump asked her to speak at the Republican National Convention. Ingraham came out to cheers from a grateful crowd, one that remembered her die-hard support for Trump during the primary campaign.

She gave an energetic speech, kicked off by noting she is a single mother of three adopted children.

“I refuse to leave my kids a country that is worse off than the one my parents left me,” said Ingraham.

Ingraham noted her blue-collar roots and values: Her mother worked as a waitress until she was 73, and her father ran a car wash.

“My mother made my clothes. She wore the same winter coat for 40 years … We learned there is dignity in every job … no matter what you do,” said Ingraham, who grew up in Connecticut. “My brothers picked tobacco and delivered newspapers. I picked blueberries and raked lawns … You see, my parents didn’t believe there were jobs that Americans wouldn’t do.”

“Laura Ingraham is a lot like Donald Trump,” said Eddie Zipperer, an assistant professor of political science at Georgia Military College and a frequent LifeZette contributor. “She’s got that same Northeastern toughness about her … She’s one of the few people in this country who had the guts to be a voice for those who’ve been hurt the most by the globalist policies of the last few decades. The Left attacked her for it. The Establishment attacked her for it. But she never backed down.”

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Ingraham, a resident of northern Virginia, has long worked for conservative causes. At Dartmouth College, she was editor of the conservative newspaper, the Dartmouth Review. She went on to work in the Reagan administration as a speechwriter, and then went back to school to study law, earning a degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991.

At her Fox News soirée, she quoted her old boss, President Ronald Reagan.

“America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. He’s ours,” Ingraham quoted Reagan as saying. “I recognize that we must be cautious in claiming God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we are on His side. This is an endless experiment in freedom.”

Ingraham also became a best-selling author while a radio talk-show host. Her latest book, “Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump,” is now on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

Ingraham will continue her radio show, and will continue to oversee LifeZette.