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Fox News has been considered Trump’s home station for the past several years. But the channel’s relationship with the president has fallen apart significantly since election night. Not without consequences for the conservative television host.
By Julia Kastein, ARD Studio Washington
Election night on Fox News. Moderator Bill Hemmer is confused: “Why is Arizona blue? Is there a decision?” – “Yes,” confirms a voice from outside: Opinion pollsters at the station’s so-called decision desk are sure: Arizona with its eleven voters will be blue, the color of the Democrats. Not Donald Trump, like 2016, but Joe Biden will win there.
Ironically, Fox News, the broadcaster that made Donald Trump a great candidate, gave the incumbent president the first hook of the night. Some other media outlets make the same decision soon after, but most aren’t sure days later either. And for Fox News, the rush has consequences.
Call Rupert Murdoch
Almost every day, the head of the “decision table”, Arnon Mishkin, has to ask his colleagues on the air: “How do you see it now?” He says: “We are sure: even when all the votes are counted, Joe Biden will be ahead of Donald Trump.” Trump was so angry about Fox’s decision that, according to US media reports, he hired his stepson Jared Kushner to call Rupert Murdoch, the founder and chief head of the media empire.
Trump supporters and his campaign team accuse Mishkin of working for Democrats. The pale one with the rimless glasses has to explain himself again, live in his position: Yes, he also worked as a political adviser to Democrats. And yes, he donated. A total of $ 800 in the last twelve years. 500 for a friend from Republican school. 300 for the democratic friend of a friend.
Split relationship
Election night is the perfect example of Trump’s complicated relationship with his home announcer: On news broadcasts throughout the day, he and his politics are also critically questioned from time to time. But at night, on the talk shows, the time of the strikes of his right-wing populist accomplices.
Tucker Carlson, for example, the man with the highest primetime ratings of all cable stations, then describes Biden in a one-minute monologue as a remotely controlled puppet of the rich and the tech industry who wanted to put America online and turn it into an oligarchy.
Criticisms of allegations of electoral fraud
This distribution of roles has not changed in recent days either: during the day, news moderators continue to ask their Republican interview partners for evidence of alleged electoral fraud. And at night, Trump’s favorite anchor, former car salesman Sean Hannity, praises the president as a fighter for proper counting and transparency, and against supposedly disastrous and unreliable counting practices in some states.
The field war that divides the United States is also tearing apart Fox News. And it sparked another little sensation in the station’s history Monday night: Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, appeared before the press, claiming without evidence that Democrats were welcoming voter fraud and illegal voting. . Moderator Neil Cavuto immediately ignored the ongoing press conference: the dissemination of these claims could not support with a clear conscience. Your late-night talk show colleagues aren’t ready yet.
