We spent several days on this forum bouncing around why Fox was so much quicker than others to call AZ. Were the models really so wildly different? Were the other networks holding back a callable state (for that matter, was Fox holding back a callable NV because they had already called AZ, and NV would put Biden over the line)?
Per Wolff's new book, when Fox's decision desk was ready to call Arizona, they passed it to Lachlan, who called dad, and dad said run with it, with the quip quoted in the thread title directed at the President. Of course, that's not how it's supposed to work. It's supposed to work the way Fox claims it did: the decision desk made the call and passed it to the president of the news division, and that was that. But it's not hard to imagine that Fox does things a little differently, and it's also well-known that there's no love lost between the old man and Trump.
Per Wolff's new book, when Fox's decision desk was ready to call Arizona, they passed it to Lachlan, who called dad, and dad said run with it, with the quip quoted in the thread title directed at the President. Of course, that's not how it's supposed to work. It's supposed to work the way Fox claims it did: the decision desk made the call and passed it to the president of the news division, and that was that. But it's not hard to imagine that Fox does things a little differently, and it's also well-known that there's no love lost between the old man and Trump.
Rupert Murdoch approved Fox News Arizona call that signaled Trump defeat, book says
Loss of state signalled Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat but Murdoch reportedly said: ‘**** him’
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