Stirewalt saw nothing "out of the ordinary" when his team made the Arizona announcement on election night. He dismissed voter fraud claims from Republicans, saying, "Lawsuits, schmawsuits - we haven't seen any evidence yet that there's anything wrong." Expressing pride in "being first to project that Joe Biden would win Arizona, and very happy to defend that call in the face of a public backlash egged on by former President Trump," in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Stirewalt stated that: "Being right and beating the competition is no act of heroism it's just meeting the job description of the work I love." He emphasized in a Vanity Fair interview that he was "not responsible" personally for the call instead he credited "an awesome team of fabulous nerds" at the Fox's Decision Desk HQ and Fox News editor at the time, Bill Sammon. "Arizona is doing just what we expected it to do and we remain serene and pristine," Stirewalt later said. As for Ohio, Stirewalt said, "There is just too much vote out, and there's too much potentially heavily Democratic mail vote that may flop in at the end to get too froggy right now with Ohio." He assured viewers that "We're going to be careful, cautious, and earnest." "Because the races are very different," he replied, explaining that vote margins were too great in Arizona for the Republican candidate to overcome. "How can you call Arizona, but we can't call Ohio?" Baier asked him. Stirewalt quickly came onscreen to defend the network's decision. This is a big development," commented co-anchor Bret Baier, adding "Biden picking up Arizona changes the. "Did we just call it? Did we just make a call in Arizona?" "OK, time out. "What is happening here? Why is Arizona blue?" he asked. īill Hemmer, standing at the Fox News election map, was caught by surprise when Arizona "flipped to blue". The Associated Press, who collaborated with Fox on a voter analysis survey that was used to determine the election results, seconded the call of Arizona for Biden. Eastern time on election night, November 3, 2020. Main article: 2020 United States presidential electionĪrnon Mishkin, Fox News decision desk chief for the 2020 presidential election, called the state of Arizona and its 11 electoral votes to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at 11:20 p.m. On May 24, 2022, Stirewalt joined NewsNation as their political editor. In February 2021, Stirewalt joined The Dispatch as a contributing editor. įox News fired Stirewalt in January 2021. His role involved serving as the network's "main on-air analyst of polls and voting trends." Stirewalt hosted the weekly Power Play show on Fox. Stirewalt frequently appeared on Fox News programs. He co-hosted the podcast "Perino & Stirewalt: I'll Tell You What" from 2016 to 2020. A 1997 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, he later served as politics editor at the Charleston Daily Mail and West Virginia Media. He began his journalism career at age 17 writing baseball box scores for The Wheeling Intelligencer. Life and career Ĭhris Stirewalt, a Wheeling, West Virginia, native, was a 1993 graduate of the Linsly School. He authored and hosted Fox News Halftime Report newsletter and co-hosted the podcast Perino & Stirewalt: I'll Tell You What with Dana Perino. Previously he had worked for the Fox News Channel, which he joined in July 2010. Stirewalt is an American political analyst who is the politics editor for NewsNation and is a contributing editor for The Dispatch.
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