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What's happening on Fox News says it all.

What's happening on Fox News says it all.

Update, November 6th, 1:52 a.m.: Fox News just called the election for Donald Trump. Notably, The Associated Press did not do this. The post below will be updated.

With Kamala Harris' chances of winning the presidency dwindling with every twitch of the hated New York Times needle, what's the mood on Fox News right now?

Judging by the mood at the election parties and Trump events reported by the station's correspondents, there is a cheerful atmosphere. Although the former president's victory has not yet been officially announced, his supporters on the ground in states like Georgia, Nevada and Tennessee clearly looked at the night's election results and concluded the same thing as the rest of us: in two and a month and a half It is quite likely that Donald Trump will return to the White House.

In Fox's New York studios, the mood is a little calmer. As of about 1 a.m., it seems to me that most of the network's moderators and panelists are still trying to be professional while at the same time just waiting for the opportunity to safely gloat. While everyone on the Fox set currently seems to sense the distinct likelihood of a Trump victory, the still-unresolved electoral votes of the Democrats' so-called “blue wall” have put them in a position where, for the most part, they're just highlighting Trump's growing margins and leave it to the audience to see the connections.

They do this in many different ways. Bill Hemmer, the network's designated map expert, calls out counties in swing states and runs through scenarios that could bring Trump to the presidency sooner rather than later. Bret Baier wonders whether a narrow, unlikely Harris victory would even count as a mandate. Karl Rove is scribbling on his stupid whiteboard, talking about what we can figure out from the numbers we already have. “We can pretty well say, '89 percent of the votes are in, or 95 percent of the votes are in,' and… that turns out to be right.” That's very rare… I can't think of a single case where in which we said we looked at a number and found that 90 percent or 85 percent of the vote was for it, and that turned out to be completely false,” Rove said around 12:30 p.m

Rove, of course, was criticized on-air by then-Fox host Megyn Kelly on election night 2012 for being completely wrong in his interpretation of the results of that year's election. It became one of the most famous moments in the network's history and serves as a reminder that the networks' experts don't necessarily have better insight into what's about to happen than you or I. In other words, these people have been wrong before – but right now their comments exude more and more inevitability. “They call it the 'bro strategy' or whatever, it seems to have paid off up there,” Fox decision team member Daron Shaw said just before 1 a.m., referring to Trump's efforts up there Midwestern states win the majority of men. “I mean, it's still, we're still waiting – but you know, things are looking pretty good for him.”

About 25 minutes later, the station called Pennsylvania about Trump, and things started to look even better.

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