During an interview on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said Alabama voters “know their future better than anyone else” and “are going to pick the candidate that they believe best advances the Trump agenda” in the special Senate primary election today.

President Donald Trump endorsed the candidacy of Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) to complete Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Senate term, despite the fact that Strange is backed by the GOP political Establishment. Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and other populist-conservatives, however, bucked Trump by backing former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in Tuesday’s runoff.

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When asked if Trump is “on the ballot” in Tuesday’s election, Ingraham said she didn’t believe he was.

“I think that President Trump was right to say on Friday whoever wins this, he’s going to support vigorously, because obviously it’s better than the Democrat alternative,” Ingraham said.

“I think it does remind us of this, though: Conservative populism isn’t about one person. Donald Trump gave it the voice and the platform and a muscular defense throughout this campaign. And he went on offense on all these issues,” Ingraham added. “But it’s, really, in the end — it’s about the issues. And the issues matter in this race.”

The Alabama runoff Senate election is “a good lesson for everyone watching that substance matters,” Ingraham said, noting that voters want Congress to support the president’s agenda and back it unambiguously.

“But I do believe that the people of Alabama know their future better than anyone else. And they’re going to pick the candidate that they believe best advances the Trump agenda,” Ingraham said. “I don’t know who they’ll ultimately pick. I guess it would be Roy Moore.”

“But I think it just reminds us, this movement, as Donald Trump has said, is not about him. It’s about the country, moving it forward, tamping down on political correctness, etc.,” she added. “He won because of the issues. He represented the forgotten man and woman, and he needs to remember that. And this election might tell us a little something about where the voters’ temperature is.”

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The Alabama election comes at such a crucial time because the Senate once again appears to be facing the reality of another failed attempt to reform Obamacare. After failing repeatedly to repeal and replace Obamacare — something the GOP campaigned upon rigorously in 2016 — the last-ditch Cassidy-Graham bill suffered enough defections to make its passage appear impossible by the September 30 deadline.

“The problem here is that the Republicans botched it at the kickoff … they just botched it from the beginning,” Ingraham said. “Now they’re up against this, you know, supposed time deadline and they’re trying to cram through something that really isn’t a real repeal.”

“Maybe, but they’re here because [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell couldn’t get the job done on full repeal. They’re here because the Republican Party — in a reprehensible manner — has failed the working-class people and the voters who elected them to do precisely what they claimed they would do,” Ingraham added.

“If you are going to be the leader of the Senate, you need to get your coalition together or stop promising things,” Ingraham continued. “Just say, ‘We’re going do this, kick the can down the road for the next X number of years.’ Stop promising that you’re going to lead and improve the country.”