Neil Cavuto’s voice comes through loud and clear on President Trump, and it’s not admiring.
Neil Cavuto’s voice strikes a tone of bemused reason on Fox News.
Neil Cavuto’s voice will fail him someday.
These are three competing and coinciding realities defining the career of the Fox News host at age 59.
Cavuto is a Trump skeptic on a network re-engineered as a safe space for a president whose appetite for televised affirmation is boundless. Cavuto is a relative model of civility, as far as such things are possible on cable news and especially Fox, letting such liberal guests as Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin have their say and get in a closing word.
And, despite layers of physical challenges, Cavuto is a Fox workhorse: He now hosts 17 hours of live television a week on Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business Network.
That last figure jumped early this year after his decision to take on two hours every Saturday morning.
“We had four taped business shows on [Saturdays] and they were constantly getting blown out by breaking news. It’s the nature of the beast,” Cavuto recalls. “So I finally came to the conclusion, well, I might as well interrupt myself.”