(PRESIDENT TRUMP DISCUSSES QUESTIONABLE ELECTION RESULTS read one Fox chyron last night. Fox’s popular prime-time opinion programs, throughout this week, have functioned as a Trump-campaign ad by another means. And the lag in vote counting is partially attributable to Trump himself: His campaign, operating on the conventional wisdom that in-person and same-day voting favors Republicans, spent months telling its base not to vote by mail. Thank you. In fact, if you watched only Fox to get election results, as so many Americans do, you could reasonably forget that America is currently living through a steadily worsening pandemic. We’ve revealed financial scams that prey on veterans, and legal efforts to harm workers exploited by abusive bosses. The most-watched news network in America is choosing to mislead its viewers about the state of the election. Every reader contribution, whatever the amount, makes a tremendous difference.

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“Trump,” The Washington Post noted yesterday, in an extensive summary of his campaign’s long-running attempts to claim voter fraud where there is none, “has offered no evidence that the election’s integrity has been compromised, and none has been found. And unlike other news outlets, we’ve decided to make our original content free. The rightwing network, owned by Rupert Murdoch and built up by the late Roger Ailes, was once so closely aligned with Trump that many observers said it functioned as “state media”. And those efforts mean little if, as CNN reported this morning, Fox is instructing its journalists not to refer to Joe Biden as the “president-elect”—even once the network itself calls the race. New: Shop to Support Independent Journalism.

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None of that was explained to Fox’s viewers. Political actors who have various vested interests in a second term of Trump have filled the network’s air with baseless claims of Democrats’ malfeasance and, consequently, the wide-scale failures of a free and fair election. And according to CNN's Brian Stelter, Trump's supporters in the right-wing media are encouraging his false claims that he really won the election. Like you, we here at Raw Story believe in the power of progressive journalism. Read the latest news and analysis on President Donald Trump. Instead, on Fox this week, “fraud” has been a refrain. On election day, Fox made an early call that Joe Biden had won Arizona, a decision that reportedly infuriated the Trump administration and helped shift the broader public narrative of the election result towards a likely Biden victory. GOP strategist Colin Reed believes that Donald Trump’s presidency is on its last legs. "But top election officials across the country said in interviews and statements that the process had been a remarkable success despite record turnout and the complications of a dangerous pandemic.". Fox News, which spent years flattering Donald Trump and his fictions, is finishing what it started. Like you, we believe in the power of progressive journalism — and we’re investing in investigative reporting as other publications give it the ax. We’re seeing this pattern in Democratic city after Democratic city, with the worst in the country right now is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich: “You have a group of corrupt people who have absolute contempt for the American people, who believe that we are so spineless, so cowardly, so unwilling to stand up for ourselves, that they can steal the presidency … No one should have any doubt: You are watching an effort to steal the presidency of the United States.”, Senator Lindsey Graham: “The allegations of wrongdoing are earth-shattering … So Senate Republicans are going to be briefed by the Trump campaign Saturday, and every Senate Republican and House Republican needs to get on television and tell this story.”, These baseless claims were echoes of the desperate and lie-riddled speech Donald Trump had delivered from the White House earlier yesterday evening. "Over the last several days, the president, members of his administration, congressional Republicans and right wing allies have put forth the false claim that the election was stolen from Mr. Trump and have refused to accept results that showed Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the winner," The Times explained. All rights reserved. They have repeated the need for evidence when it comes to validating those claims; they have emphasized, as well, how absent that evidence has been. US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base October 27, 2020, in Maryland. Make a one-time contribution to Raw Story Investigates, or click here to become a subscriber. They are also, in the process, undermining the “news” element of Fox News. But those most basic efforts at checking the president’s lies mean little when, on the same network, powerful members of the United States government, encouraged by Fox’s opinion hosts, are talking openly about arresting poll workers and staging coups.

As Fox News announced more state-level victories for Joe Biden on Wednesday, Trump supporters across the country grew more vocal in their frustration with the network. We’ve revealed financial scams that prey on veterans, and efforts to harm workers exploited by abusive bosses. President’s backers have grown increasingly vocal about their anger at a network that has long allied with Trump, Fri 6 Nov 2020 06.00 GMT “When CNN appeared more pro-Trump, I was concerned,” one person wrote. So you’re like, OK, who do you trust?”, Asked whom he would trust to confirm the actual results of the election, he said: “Trump.”. Trump supporters across the United States increasingly say they no longer trust Fox News, the Rupert Murdoch-owned TV network that has acted as one of … The Fox News Channel, this week, had the opportunity to reckon with reality; instead, the network chose to mislead its viewers about the state of the election, and to foment mistrust in the workings of the American electoral system more broadly. Reporters chronicled how political talking points aired by Fox News hosts were picked up by the president, and then were reinforced again on the news network. Thank you. In Detroit, as Trump supporters chanted “Stop the count” outside a ballot-counting location, the news that Fox had just called Michigan for Biden had little effect on the demonstration.

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