For all the concerns about a tumultuous process that could leave Americans waiting for days to learn who its next president would be, news outlets instead experienced an election night Tuesday that hewed close to tradition.
From the first hints provided by exit poll results shortly after 5 p.m. Eastern time, the election night story moved methodically in Donald Trump's direction. The Associated Press called the first of seven battleground states, North Carolina, for the former president at 11:18 p.m. ET. By midnight, The New York Times' predictive Needle judged Trump with a 90 percent likelihood of winning the presidency over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fox News Channel pointed to exit poll results that showed Trump making gains among young voters and Latinos. “The Biden-Harris people pushed them into Trump's open arms,” said Fox's Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary under President George W. Bush. While votes continued to be counted, Fox News' Brit Hume said that Harris' “chance of pulling this off would be the most amazing thing we have ever seen.”Due to remarkably close pre-election polls, the outcome was considered a mystery that could take many days to resolve. In his last pre-election prediction, statistician Nate Silver said it was no better than a coin flip, giving an ever-so-slight edge to Harris.
For much of the night, the journalists who stood before “magic boards” — John King on CNN, Bill Hemmer on Fox News Channel, Steve Kornacki on MSNBC — took up much of the airtime with granular reports on results. State-by-state, county-by-county, they showed numbers where Trump was outperforming his 2020 campaign and Harris lagged behind Biden's results.
MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff talked to voters waiting in line outside a polling place near Temple University in Philadelphia, where actor Paul Rudd was handing out water bottles. Soboroff was called on by one young voter to take a picture with herself and Rudd.
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