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    How Fox News and CNN responded to Election Night 2024

    Kathleen William Posted on

    A strange election campaign came to a strange end when Donald Trump claimed victory over Kamala Harris in the presidential race — and Fox News and NewsNation agreed.

    “This will truly be the golden age of America,” Trump said in a speech to his supporters early Wednesday morning. “This is a great victory for the American people that will allow us to Make America Great Again.”

    Trump delivered the speech in a strange media space where he had not yet been declared the winner by the Associated Press or other networks, but the result was clear.

    But man, even though the data wasn't quite there to call it that yet, they were all talking about it like it was a done deal for Trump. There were a lot of variations on “votes still need to be counted” and so on, but that disappeared after a while. Soon analysts like Van Jones on CNN were saying things like, “It’s not the elites who will pay the price. These are the people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare.”

    “This feels more like 2016 than 2020”

    For weeks, experts and pollsters have said the race was too close to decide and that it could be days before a winner was announced. But then things turned out completely differently. There was a strange familiarity to the whole thing. As Chris Wallace put it on CNN, “Right now it feels more like 2016 than 2020.”

    It was and it wasn't. In 2016, Hillary Clinton was expected to easily defeat Trump. As that night unfolded with a kind of morbid curiosity – did it really happen? – The media had to adapt their reporting on the fly, throwing plans overboard and developing new ones from scratch.

    Tuesday night wasn't like that. In a race that was supposedly too close, the surprise wasn't that Trump won, which was always an obvious possibility, but how quickly the results took shape – that should take days, remember. That and the resignation in the networks. They talked about Harris' chances the way you talk about someone with a terminal illness who isn't quite dead yet; You have to be careful not to talk about it in the past tense.

    “A few weeks ago there were things that I didn’t think could happen,” said Daron Shaw of the Fox News Decision Desk. “I didn’t think Trump could win the national vote. I'm not saying he'll make it, but no one thought that could happen. … That’s a possibility.”

    It didn't take long for Fox News to rejoice

    It didn't take long for the Fox News panel to start getting excited. Dana Perino complained that Harris hadn't conceded even though no other major network had called the race – and even though Trump still hadn't conceded the race in 2020. Later, Kellyanne Conway said she was concerned that Harris supporters reacted violently and used words like “unhinged.” Again, no mention of the Trump-inspired January 6th insurrection.

    We can look forward to another four years.

    Things started typically slowly

    The day began fairly routinely, with broadcasters trying to fill the time until the polls closed. CNN spoke to a man who said he only voted because his girlfriend said she would break up with him if he didn't. Then he said he was just making it up and thought it was a funny thing to say. If he hadn't voted, he would have spent the day eating chips.

    The results couldn't be available soon enough.

    It didn't take long for them to realize that things weren't looking good for Harris, and she announced late that night that she wouldn't be speaking until Wednesday.

    Brian Williams hosted the streaming coverage on Prime Video

    On Prime Video, where Brian Williams hosted the first streaming coverage of an election, Abby Huntsman said before the call: “Just look at the headquarters, the mood, the mood that we get when you go to our reporters there .” Kamala went home for the night. The bottles are bursting at Trump headquarters.

    In fact, there were, and Trump finally appeared before the crowd gathered there. It was a far cry from 2020, when Trump prematurely declared victory in a race he later lost and whose results he still lies about. This speech was vindictive. That speech was more rambling and lengthy, in the style of his rallies during this election, but he left most of the criticism to people like Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, who barked, “This is karma!” at the crowd.

    “There he is, giving a broadly unifying and generous speech,” Jake Tapper said on CNN, and here we are again on a curve with the rating.

    Towards the end of his speech, Trump recalled the more than 900 rallies he had held.

    “I will never do a rally again, can you believe that?” he said.

    Be grateful for small acts of kindness.

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