The Fox News Decision Desk was first to call Arizona for Joe Biden Tuesday night, a projection that’s good news for Democrats but one that a number of people on the Trump team objected to as being too early a call.
Axios’ Jonathan Swan reported the White House and Trump campaign are “furious” with Fox over the call.
So Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum brought on Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt to explain how they could call Arizona for Biden when they couldn’t make any calls on Ohio yet. (During the segment, they cut in to officially call Ohio for President Donald Trump.)
Stirewalt said they wanted to be “careful, cautious, and earnest” on Ohio.
Baier wryly remarked, “You weren’t careful, cautious, and earnest in Arizona.”
“We were too,” Stirewalt said.
Baier noted how the state might be skewed towards the Democrats only for the day-of vote to give the Republicans more of an advantage.
Stirewalt insisted, “We did every trap, we looked at every possible way that this could go, and if there were some way that it looked like Donald Trump was going to be able to bring Arizona in, we wouldn’t have called it. But the reality is that the margins are too significant, we feel very confident in the call, or otherwise we wouldn’t have made it.”
There was another statistician prick Fox put on right at the beginning when the call was made. He was very smug about how they were right and the Trump camp was wrong about AZ. Can't remember his name, but his performance got me closer than I've ever come to damaging my TV. Did they take out that trash?
If you're thinking of Arnon Mishkin, he's technically an outside contractor, so they can't "lay him off". But I suspect his role will either disappear or be greatly diminished when midterm coverage rolls around.
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The Fox News Decision Desk was first to call Arizona for Joe Biden Tuesday night, a projection that’s good news for Democrats but one that a number of people on the Trump team objected to as being too early a call.
Axios’ Jonathan Swan reported the White House and Trump campaign are “furious” with Fox over the call.
So Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum brought on Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt to explain how they could call Arizona for Biden when they couldn’t make any calls on Ohio yet. (During the segment, they cut in to officially call Ohio for President Donald Trump.)
Stirewalt said they wanted to be “careful, cautious, and earnest” on Ohio.
Baier wryly remarked, “You weren’t careful, cautious, and earnest in Arizona.”
“We were too,” Stirewalt said.
Baier noted how the state might be skewed towards the Democrats only for the day-of vote to give the Republicans more of an advantage.
Stirewalt insisted, “We did every trap, we looked at every possible way that this could go, and if there were some way that it looked like Donald Trump was going to be able to bring Arizona in, we wouldn’t have called it. But the reality is that the margins are too significant, we feel very confident in the call, or otherwise we wouldn’t have made it.”
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-chris-stirewalt-defends-calling-az-for-biden-amid-pushback-warns-of-dark-cloud-on-the-horizon-for-trump/
There was another statistician prick Fox put on right at the beginning when the call was made. He was very smug about how they were right and the Trump camp was wrong about AZ. Can't remember his name, but his performance got me closer than I've ever come to damaging my TV. Did they take out that trash?
If you're thinking of Arnon Mishkin, he's technically an outside contractor, so they can't "lay him off". But I suspect his role will either disappear or be greatly diminished when midterm coverage rolls around.
That's the weasel I'm thinking of. Well, I can be happy about that then!