Thread by @Monaheart1229

PER VF:
After Fox called AZ for Biden last night: "Trump phoned Murdoch to scream about the call/demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, & the call stood. Trump & Murdoch have been at odds for months over election coverage .."
#ElectionResults2020
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2-"Tensions between Fox's pro-Trump opinion hosts and the news division are flaring over the Arizona call. "We called it long before MSNBC!" one outraged staffer on the opinion side told me. "We were so worried about being seen as pro-Trump that we bent over backwards."

3-"Some Republicans blame Fox for setting the narrative that Trump lost, even though the Associated Press later called Arizona for Biden. (As of Wednesday afternoon, NBC News, along with CNN, still haven’t called Arizona).

4-""Fox News committed news malpractice and voter suppression last night," former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg told me. "There's got to be a change there or there will be major consequences. Chris Wallace wouldn't shut up the whole night! I switched to CNN anytime he came on."

5-"It was around 2:30 a.m. when all hell broke loose. That’s when President Donald Trump did the unhinged, dangerous, democracy-destabilizing thing that we all hoped we wouldn’t have to see him do, giving a speech at the White House in which he prematurely declared victory even

6-"as millions upon millions of legitimate votes were still being counted. The goal, in all of its authoritarian bluster, was to get out in front of a result that might not land in his favor.

7-"But anyone who was still awake and glued to their screens as the propaganda unfolded got a fast and forceful reality check. The networks quickly and aggressively called bullshit on Trump’s remarks, either breaking away from the speech or butting in with fact-checks.

8-"“We are reluctant to step in, but duty bound to point out when he says, ‘We did win this election, we’ve already won,’ that’s not based in the facts at all,” said MSNBC’s Brian Williams.

9-"His colleague Nicolle Wallace put it this way: “It’s straight-up autocratic malarkey, and what we have to keep in mind is that he’s not the boss of the counting.”

10-"The only good news is that when the Supreme Court tells Trump to take a walk-and, if he really means to challenge the practice of vote counting, it will tell him to take a walk—we’ll see all of Trump’s court appointees exercise their independence. "