AP declared Biden the winner in AZ; why haven't the others outlets?

[Bradshaw3]

Usually the Associated Press is more conservative in its projections yet they seem to be the only outlet making a call:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/03/arizona-2020-presidential-election-results-donald-trump-joe-biden/5996346002/

The NYT map shows that there are far more remaining votes to be counted in the more heavily populated counties voting Democratic than in the less populated red counties:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-arizona.html

There is simply no way drumpf is going to make up the 100,000 plus vote difference. In fact, Biden's winning margin should grow.

[In It to Win It]

1. They're scared

[uponit7771]

2. Ratings

[qazplm135]

3. Because they don't know for sure

They are being cautious, there's no conspiracy.

[Bradshaw3]

8. Never said there was a conspiracy

Just asked a question.

[obamanut2012]

4. AP and Fox Decision Desk have called it for Biden

And, both are actually usually very cautious and very accurate

[Mike 03]

5. NYT is predicting AZ will complete its vote count today.

Biden is up by 5%, and Mark Kelly's race was called last night.

82% of the votes have been counted.

Where are the uncounted votes? If they are in Maricopa and Pima counties, we will take this state.

In 2016, it took days (five? six?) to call the Kyrsten Sinema/McSally race, even though Sinema was ahead the entire time. Most of the outstanding tabulation was in Maricopa county, IIRC. Sinema's lead just kept widening.

[KewlKat]

6. Last night on CNN, a whitehouse correspondent said that per some WH aide, it

Was after AZ was projected for Joe that drumpf went off the rails and demanded they stop the counting. The CNN guy said we haven’t called it for Biden and this woman said well the AP had.

So maybe the news outlets were fearful of calling it for Joe because of drumpf’s behavior?

[Mike 03]

7. That's an interesting tidbit.

[KewlKat]

11. Yeah, and I believe that is why drumpf wanted most states to stop but for AZ to

Continue the count.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I remember in 2018 that the NYT site was REAL REAL slow calling some races.

[greenman3610]

10. Aljazeera also projected Joe in Arizona, maybe cueing from AP?