{"id":36823,"date":"2020-11-06T03:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T03:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36823"},"modified":"2020-11-06T03:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T03:23:04","slug":"outrage-erupts-online-over-fox-news-decision-to-call-arizona-for-biden-az-governor-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36823","title":{"rendered":"Outrage Erupts Online Over Fox News&rsquo; Decision To Call Arizona For Biden. AZ Governor Responds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage exploded online late on Tuesday night after Fox News called the presidential race in Arizona for Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, a call that many believed is still too early and ultimately led to a response from the state&#8217;s governor.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Doug Ducey, without specifically identifying the network, responded to the call that Biden had won the state, which had not been reported yet by the other networks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; It&rsquo;s far too early to call the election in Arizona ,&#8221; Ducey wrote.&#8221; Election Day votes are not completely reported, and we haven&rsquo;t even started to count early ballots declined off at the polls. In AZ, we protected Election Day. Let&rsquo;s count the votes &#8212; all the votes &#8212; before attaining declarations .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&rsquo;s far too early to call the election in Arizona. Election Day votes are not completely reported, and we haven&rsquo;t even started to count early ballots dropped off at the polls. In AZ, we protected Election Day. Let&rsquo;s count the votes &#8212; all the votes &#8212; before constructing declarations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Doug Ducey (@ dougducey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dougducey\/status\/1323851735408930822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller wrote on Twitter:&#8221; Fox News is a complete outlier in holler Arizona, and other media stores should not follow suit. There are still 1M+ Election Day votes out there waiting to be counted- we pushed our people to vote on Election Day, but now Fox News is trying to invalidate their votes !&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We merely need 61% of the outstanding, uncounted Election Day polls in Arizona to win ,&#8221; Miller continued.&#8221; These referendums are coming from&#8217; our counties ,&#8217; and the 61% figure is very doable based on what our other Election Day votes are looking like. @FoxNews should repudiate their bellow immediately .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/ We merely need 61% of the outstanding, uncounted Election Day referendums in Arizona to win. <\/p>\n<p>These votes are coming from &ldquo;our districts, &rdquo; and the 61% figure is very doable based on what our other Election Day votes are looking like.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> @FoxNews<\/a> should recant their see immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jason Miller (@ JasonMillerinDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMillerinDC\/status\/1323849820365377536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Arizona political insider and columnist Jon Gabriel said that there was &ldquo;something very odd about&rdquo; what was going on in the state.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In AZ and agree. I&#8217;ve never seen this slow of a count in AZ. Something very odd about all this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; jon gabriel (@ exjon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exjon\/status\/1323851721223725062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Federalist co-founder Sean Davis wrote on Twitter:&#8221; I&#8217;ve talked to several Trump campaign advisers, and I can&#8217;t impart how fierce the campaign is at Fox for its wholly unjustified AZ call for Biden. They said today not even CNN and MSNBC have called a race for the Democrat, you know something is up .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Fox is&#8217; f *** ing us hard ,&#8217; one consultant said ,&#8221; Davis added.<\/p>\n<p>Those feelings were similar to several commentaries that Trump campaign government officials and RNC officials told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox is &#8220;f *** ing us hard-handed, &#8221; one adviser said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lg6lR2xxkl\">https :\/\/ t.co\/ lg6lR2xxkl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sean Davis (@ seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1323852906840379392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Even Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the most watched cable report host, pushed back on the network&#8217;s decision to call Arizona for Biden.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TUCKER: I&#8217;m not certain how[ Fox&#8217;s decision] to call Arizona for Biden was induced. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a reason for it. I don&#8217;t know what it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J4T2au2r90\">pic.twitter.com\/ J4T2au2r90<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; August Takala (@ AugustTakala) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AugustTakala\/status\/1323856358354149376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing news story, refresh the page for updates.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America&rsquo;s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural stores for news, ruling, and recreation. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/outrage-erupts-online-over-fox-news-decision-to-call-arizona-for-biden-az-governor-responds\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage exploded online late on Tuesday night after Fox News called the presidential race in Arizona for Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, a call that many believed is still too early and ultimately led to a response from the state&#8217;s governor. Governor Doug Ducey, without specifically identifying the network, responded to the call that Biden &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,19101,16242,9337,19875,16099,4135,1171,11131,19692],"class_list":["post-36823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-biden","tag-call","tag-campaign","tag-count","tag-early","tag-election","tag-news","tag-november","tag-votes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Chris-Wallace-1200x8001604632985.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}