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The Fox News proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, personally gave final approval to the network's decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election, according to Michael Wolff's new book on Donald Trump.
Wolff wrote that Murdoch's son Lachlan, the CEO of Fox Corporation, got a call from the network's election-data operation shortly after 11 p.m. ET on election night saying it was ready to declare Arizona for Biden.
The book noted that the Murdochs - who spearhead a vast right-wing media empire - had "every reason" to delay calling Arizona at the time, given Fox's steadfast allegiance to Trump and the fact that no other network had made the call yet.
"Lachlan got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. His father, with signature grunt, assented, adding, 'F--- him,'" Wolff wrote.
Shortly after, the book said, the Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer called Trump's lead social-media strategist, Jason Miller, to let him know the network was going to call Arizona for Biden.
"Miller involuntarily rose from his seat. 'What the f---?' he said out loud, looking around and seeing the still-merry and untroubled faces in the Map Room" of Trump campaign staffers and insiders who believed they were on the fast-track to reelection, Wolff wrote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ion-night-enraging-trump-book-says/ar-AALXwEy
Wolff wrote that Murdoch's son Lachlan, the CEO of Fox Corporation, got a call from the network's election-data operation shortly after 11 p.m. ET on election night saying it was ready to declare Arizona for Biden.
The book noted that the Murdochs - who spearhead a vast right-wing media empire - had "every reason" to delay calling Arizona at the time, given Fox's steadfast allegiance to Trump and the fact that no other network had made the call yet.
"Lachlan got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. His father, with signature grunt, assented, adding, 'F--- him,'" Wolff wrote.
Shortly after, the book said, the Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer called Trump's lead social-media strategist, Jason Miller, to let him know the network was going to call Arizona for Biden.
"Miller involuntarily rose from his seat. 'What the f---?' he said out loud, looking around and seeing the still-merry and untroubled faces in the Map Room" of Trump campaign staffers and insiders who believed they were on the fast-track to reelection, Wolff wrote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ion-night-enraging-trump-book-says/ar-AALXwEy