Fox News Still Will Not Admit Bungling Election Night Call on House Races
Posted on | November 11, 2020 | 5 Comments
In addition to botching the presidential call in Arizona, Fox News was even more disastrously wrong in their congressional projections on Election Night, claiming that Democrats would “expand” Nancy Pelosi’s House majority by as many as 15 seats.
Deb Heine at American Greatness:
The Fox News Decision Desk made its wildly inaccurate projection early on Election Night, saying that Democrats would win at least five seats in the House. The bad call was devastating to Republican morale and set the false narrative that President Trump had no coattails.
As [Christopher] Gage noted, “this happened while Californians were still voting.” . . .
Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram tweeted out the short-lived good news for Democrats at 9:16 p.m. ET on Nov. 3rd.
“The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Dems will retain control of the House & expand their majority by at least 5 seats,” Pergram wrote. “This is a major boost for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has pledged to roll back much of Trump’s first-term agenda if he loses reelection.”
You could see the happiness — the absolute giddy glee — on Martha MacCallum’s face when she reported this on Fox News:
Here’s the video of Fox News making this call on election night. It was the first call of the night:pic.twitter.com/MLp6q8Ql5c
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) November 11, 2020
This projection was false. It was either an incredibly stupid error or it was a deliberate lie, and it really doesn’t matter which it was, because Fox News has never even admitted it was wrong, much less have they explained why they misled their audience on Election Night.
Ace of Spades has been on a rampage against Fox News, where ratings have collapsed because they hate their audience.
That’s right — if you voted for Trump, Martha MacCallum hates you. She thinks you’re a stupid racist bigot, and she doesn’t want you watching her show. Same thing with Chris Wallace and Chris Stirewalt. They would rather hang out with Antifa looters than with Republican voters.
It’s time to stop watching Fox News, forever.
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!
At almost the exact time that I was writing this post, Bret Baier was on Fox News admitting that their Election Night projection of Democrats gaining House seats “did not occur”:
.@BretBaier comments on the Fox News Decision Desk's Election Night projection for the House, reiterating that they "correctly predicted…that Democrats would retain control" while their insistence Dems "would add about five seats to their majority…did not occur." pic.twitter.com/Ny5NJ5ncsl
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 12, 2020
Eight days later, you admit this, Bret? But no explanation, no apology? It doesn’t matter. Nobody’s watching. You’re dead to us now.
Even if you fired the people responsible — particularly that bloated failure Chris Stirewalt — it wouldn’t matter. Too late. And we still could never forgive you for employing that saboteur Chris Wallace.
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