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What’s happening on Fox News right now speaks volumes.

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What’s happening on Fox News right now speaks volumes.

Around 1:46 a.m. Wednesday morning, Fox News host Bret Baier officially confirmed what, by then, virtually everyone still watching the channel at that hour knew would eventually happen. “The Fox News decision desk can now officially predict that Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States,” Baier said. (The Associated Press and most major networks have not yet called the race.)

“The former president’s comeback will be complete with a victory in Wisconsin, a state he narrowly lost four years ago,” said co-host Martha MacCallum, noting that Trump was the second president in American history to serve non-consecutive terms. won. . “Voters expressed deep frustration with the Biden administration and former President Trump — and the future President Trump overperformed in urban areas, especially when it came to men, proving that the strategy they have doubled and tripled down in recent months was absolutely successful and brought him back to the White House.”

Although it took Fox News until almost 2 a.m. to make an official call, by midnight most people on the network had already realized that Trump was going to win, even if they couldn’t necessarily say so explicitly. There was a cheering atmosphere at the various election parties and Trump events that the network’s correspondents periodically reported on. Trump’s supporters on stage in states like Georgia, Nevada and Tennessee were chanting and shouting, drawing the same conclusions as the rest of us: in two and a half months, Donald Trump would likely return to the White House.

In the Fox studios in New York the atmosphere was a bit more sedate. As of midnight, most of the network’s presenters and panelists were still trying to be professional while also waiting for the opportunity to gloat safely. While everyone on the Fox set seemed to sense the high likelihood of a Trump victory, the then-unresolved electoral votes from the so-called “blue wall” put them in a position where they spent hours mostly just pointing out the ever-widening margins of Trump and leave it to the viewers to connect the dots.

Bill Hemmer, the network’s designated map man, called counties in swing states and discussed scenarios that could sooner or later give Trump the presidency. Baier wondered whether a narrow, improbable Harris victory would even count as a mandate. “You call it the ‘bro strategy’ or whatever, it seems to have made some gains there,” Fox decision team member Daron Shaw said just before 1 a.m., referring to Trump’s efforts to boost male voice in the upper Midwest. says, “I mean, it’s still, we’re still waiting, but you know, it’s looking pretty good for him.”

Karl Rove scribbled on his stupid whiteboard and told viewers what they could make out from the numbers they already had. “We’re pretty good at saying ’89 percent of the votes are in,’ or 95 percent of the votes are in, and that turns out to be correct. It happens very rarely. I can’t think of a single instance where we’ve said we looked at a number and 90 percent of the votes came in, or 85 percent of the votes came in, and that turned out to be completely untrue. ,” Rove said around 12:30 p.m

Rove, of course, was called out on air by then-Fox host Megyn Kelly on election night 2012 for grossly dismissing the outcome of that year’s election. But on Tuesday night he wasn’t wrong, and when the fact of Trump’s victory finally sank in, the network’s hosts and panelists were finally free to do what they wanted to do for hours. “For the Democrats, they discussed the possibility of taking the fight to battleground states,” Baier said. “David Plouffe, with the Democratic campaign, the Harris campaign, suggested that yesterday. Now it is possible that Donald Trump will sit down with these states and build on a major election victory.” God help us all.

Update, November 6, 2024, 2:15 a.m.: This post was updated after Fox News called the race.

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