Are there any statistics to back that up? I have never heard that; not saying you are right or wrong, I have never heard that before and wonder if there are backup data.
More Democrats Than You Probably Realize Are Watching Fox News Regularly
The tribalism in media and politics tends to obscure this relatively minor but important point about Fox News and, in particular, its audience.
www.forbes.com
excerpt:
The Fox News viewership actually consists of more than just Trump devotees — that, in fact, there are more Democrats on a regular basis watching Fox than you might expect. Along these lines, according to the Pew report:
More Democrats tuned in to Fox News (11%) to get their fix of 2020 election news, compared to Republicans who decided to “switch teams” during the election to check out CNN (9%) or MSNBC (3%).
A related point also revealed in the Pew report is that “only about a third of Democrats who consistently used news outlets with politically mixed or right-leaning audiences (39%) call their political views liberal; about half in this group say they are moderates (49%).”