Election Night Fox News

Fox news tanked on election night.

Election night fox news. That did not occur. The democrats winning was not surprising. The presidential election has been an absolute roller coaster ride for us for the candidates and even for the media.

At 9 pm eastern time on election night the fox news decision desk called the democrats retaining control of the house of representatives and growing their majority by at least five seats. On election night itself they were quicker on the trigger to confirm biden wins than even msnbc and cnn while slow walking trump wins. Since fox news made its utterly indefensible early call for biden in arizona before upwards of a million election day votes were counted trump has cut biden s lead by nearly a third.

On election night fox news called the house for the democrats. They refused to call florida for donald trump but jumped to prematurely give arizona to joe biden. They also canceled the judge jeanine show allegedly because she was going to talk about voter fraud.

It cost them both viewers and loyalty. Republicans have gained six seats with multiple races yet to be decided. The playing field favored them to win due to republicans running in districts that hillary clinton had won as well as the historic number of republican retirements.

But they also estimated democrats would add about five seats to their majority said baier. On election night the fox news decision desk correctly predicted soon after 9 00 eastern that democrats would retain control of the house. By those who actually watched the insufferable election night coverage on fox the common consensus was that they were insufferable.

With 14 1 million viewers during primetime compared to 9 4 million for cnn and 7 6 million for msnbc they swept the show. The channel s skewed election night coverage is extremely worriesome. Americans did not give this call much thought at first glance because all the pre election polls showed the democrats on pace to gain as many as 15 to 20 seats.