Trump with mothers and younger voters across the country. Laura Ingraham told Fox News audiences that the specter of more quarantines, what she called “that lockdown-versus-liberty dichotomy,” was helping Mr. Wallace suggested that Arizona was a point of anxiety for the Trump team after years of clashes between the president and the former Arizona senator John McCain, who died in 2018. A false rumor circulated online that Fox News had retracted its call.Īt MSNBC, Ms. The projection buoyed supporters of the Democratic candidate and quickly drew the ire of Mr.
Biden, the first flip in the presidential race from 2016, the network reported. the decision desk team at Fox News, led by the data-cruncher Arnon Mishkin, made a bold call that instantly changed the tenor of the night: Arizona had gone to Mr.
Pick your sport - we’re early in the game.”Īround 11:30 p.m. If it’s a football game, it’s an early quarter. King on CNN also leaned on a sports analogy: “If it’s a baseball game, it’s in the second or third inning at best. The anchor Martha MacCallum followed by echoing advice to “go slowly and be patient and wait for these waves - it’s an unprecedented situation.” Mr. “Each side is holding serve and they are winning the states they were expected to win and the states that were up for grabs are up for grabs.” -Chris Wallace Trump at 11:04 p.m., with The Associated Press making the same projection more than an hour later.) “What looks like a big early Democratic lead may not stay one as the same-day results come in.”Īs Florida began to tip toward the president, Tucker Carlson on Fox News called the state “the future of the country,” while criticizing earlier predictions of a stronger performance by Mr. “The drama’s going to be that same-day vote,” he said. Kornacki issued a warning that he would repeat in the following hours: Many early results did not reflect the votes submitted on Tuesday, which in Florida likely favored Mr. Steve Kornacki, the network’s map expert, saw evidence that the Trump campaign had made inroads with Cuban-American voters in Florida’s Miami-Dade County. The actor Jeff Daniels wrote on Twitter: “Every time I hear MSNBC’s Election Alert music, I lose a month off my life.” Tense viewers described the audible cue, which goes back to NBC’s radio days, as “triggering,” “traumatic” and reminiscent of the postapocalyptic “Hunger Games” trilogy. Close races are decided in the suburbs.” -John KingĪs polls started to close, MSNBC began cuing up race calls with the three-tone tune known as the NBC chimes. Thanks to dubious polls and the competition to be first in calling winners, the report said, the network news operations collided with the public interest.“You move out here to the suburbs, this is the battle of the American presidency. ''There's nothing more important to us than our credibility.'' ''CNN must get it right,'' Eason Jordon, the network's president of news gathering, said.
NBC and ABC have made the same pledge, and a CBS internal report also recommends that policy. Instead, it said it would pay for a sampling system to cross-check data compiled by the Voter News Service.īut the cable network said it would not project winners in a state until all polls there closed.
Nor did it promise to refrain from using sample precincts to project winners. Knight fellowships for journalists at Stanford University and Ben Wattenberg, a syndicated columnist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.ĬNN stopped short of adopting all the report's recommendations, saying it would abandon exit-poll projections only in close races. The authors of the report for CNN were Joan Konner, a professor at and former dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism James Risser, former director of the John S.
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