'Then Fox News called Arizona for Biden.'

[RandySF]

ut in the final stretch of the campaign, nearly everyone — including the president — believed he was going to win. And early on election night, Trump and his team thought they were witnessing a repeat of 2016, when he defied polls and expectations to build an insurmountable lead in the electoral college.

Then Fox News called Arizona for Biden.

“He was yelling at everyone,” a senior administration official recalled of Trump’s reaction. “He was like, ‘What the hell? We were supposed to be winning Arizona. What’s going on?’ He told Jared to call [News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert] Murdoch.”

Efforts by Kushner and others on the Trump team to persuade Fox to take back its Arizona call failed.

Trump and his advisers were furious, in part because calling Arizona for Biden undermined Trump’s scattershot plan to declare victory on election night if it looked as though he had sizable leads in enough states.

With Biden now just one state away from clinching a majority 270 votes in the electoral college and the media narrative turned sharply against him, Trump decided to claim fraud. And his team set out to try to prove it.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-overturn/2020/11/28/34f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

[Renew Deal]

1. I remember hearing that they were pissed on election night that NE-02 was called for Biden.

Even a single EV flip for them seemed to be a problem.

[JI7]

5. Someone posted something about how Trump losing that single vote decreased his chances

of winning the Electoral College by a pretty significant amount.

And that's why he had that rally in Nebraska where he left everyone out in the cold.

[Renew Deal]

7. It turned out to be true

NE02 + AZ=270

They didn't need PA

[exboyfil]

10. Exactly once Pennsylvania came off the board

Then the entire dynamics of the race changed. Georgia was just gravy. It left Biden in the same position as Trump was four years ago. At least three paths to victory requiring three states, one of them being Pennsylvania, needing to be flipped.

[Blue Owl]

2. I just enjoyed reliving that moment in my mind...

[DesertRat]

4. Same!

[Cha]

15. NICE!!

[Cha]

19. Hi.. here's an interesting article on the Dem who called AZ for Biden..

Meet the Jewish Democrat at Fox News’ ‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona for Biden early

https://www.jweekly.com/2020/11/04/meet-the-jewish-democrat-at-fox-news-decision-desk-the-man-who-called-arizona-for-biden-early/

[DesertRat]

24. Thanks, Cha

The call injected life back into the Biden campaign, which was reeling as it watched tallies in swing states such as Ohio and Florida grow insurmountable Trump leads.

That's exactly how we were feeling in our house! Thanks for the interesting article.

[Cha]

28. My house, too! You're Welcome, DR..

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Same Here

And I couldn't even read the article because of the paywall.

[elleng]

3. Recall Clyburn and S. Carolina???

[JI7]

6. Here is a Clip of Fox News on Biden getting Arizona

Fox News polling team is pretty good and they are all about the math/science only. There is a clip from 2012 where Karl Rove tries to claim Romney still has a chance and Megyn Kelly walks through the studio to where the polling analysts are . One of the best moments from Fox News.

[grantcart]

8. I replay that clip every 6 months or so

[exboyfil]

11. Given how close the final numbers were

I think it was a bad call, but I will take it.

[Cha]

16. "bad" or not.. it changed the whole

dynamics of trump's plan to claim "victory" on election night.

They actually did Democracy a favor.. the person at the Decision Desk who called it is named Aaron Mishkin.. and is "a registered Democrat".

Meet the Jewish Democrat at Fox News’ ‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona for Biden early

https://www.jweekly.com/2020/11/04/meet-the-jewish-democrat-at-fox-news-decision-desk-the-man-who-called-arizona-for-biden-early/

[malaise]

26. Great read

[Cha]

29. Ikr.. Fascinating!

I remembered his name & someone here said he was a Dem ,that night, so I googled it & voila!

[malaise]

30. Great find

[sweetloukillbot]

18. His assertion that Trump would only get 45% of the mail-in ballots remaining was bad

I felt comfortable with the call when it happened, but if that was the data he was basing it on, ugh, it was bad.

[malaise]

25. AP also called it

early

[Gothmog]

9. That is a great article

[Cha]

17. Here's another one on the Jewish Dem at fox who Called AZ..

Meet the Jewish Democrat at Fox News’ ‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona for Biden early

https://www.jweekly.com/2020/11/04/meet-the-jewish-democrat-at-fox-news-decision-desk-the-man-who-called-arizona-for-biden-early/

Really interesting.. I just read it.

[RoccoRyg]

12. Panic!

I almost had a panic attack in my car when the radio and Twitter said Trump was ahead in the swing states. Had to roll down the windows and crank the AC. That Red Mirage really got me good.

[LeftInTX]

13. Juicy stuff!!!

[Cha]

14. Exactly what I thought of when trump

declared "..fox is unwatchable"!!

LOl at the Orange Swamp Blob.. he & his so-called advisors thought the fix was in.. through slowing down the mail & their efforts to Damn Voting by MAIL. it's reported that's one reason he Lost Georgia.

They really must have been so shocked.

[blogslut]

20. I think they called it a "Red Mirage"?

Just before election night I remember a few programs and anchors talking about how, initially, it would appear as if he was winning, by virtue of the order of which states/votes got counted first.

[C_U_L8R]

21. All Trump's schemes turn to shit.

Thank goodness he's such an idiot.

[justgamma]

22. " Trump decided to claim fraud. And his team set out to try to prove it"

The Chump has been yelling about fraud since 2016. Remember his appointed investigators? Not to mention the red states who spent tons of money trying to find fraud and came up with nothing.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. Article is behind a paywall.