Too soon? Not for Fox News. With Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania 50.9 to 48.0% with 94% of precincts reporting and a lead of over 190,000 votes, the race looks over.
And not just in Pennsylvania either, but we’ll get to that in a moment:
BREAKING NEWS: The Fox News Decision Desk projects that former President Trump will win Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/assv0ANYj6
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 6, 2024
On Fox’s tote board, that only took Trump to 267. Our partners at Decision Desk HQ tallied it up as 270 and the election. thanks in part to calling Alaska almost at the same time:
Decision Desk HQ projects that former President Donald Trump (R) has won enough electoral votes to win the Presidency.#DecisionMade: 1:21am ET
Follow live results here: pic.twitter.com/8NH5YdjqkR
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2024
As of the writing of this post, Trump also had leads in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. The lead in Michigan is still pretty tenuous, but Trump’s lead in Wisconsin looks more solid. The New York Times’ “dials” show all of these states as likely to go to Trump. He doesn’t need these states now, but the chances of any of them other than MI going to Harris now is somewhere between slim and nome … let alone all of them.
And they also call it likely that Trump will win the national popular vote as well, although that will take longer to calculate. If this is the end, then none of these Blue Wall states turned out to be that close either. We’ll have plenty of time to discuss the implications of yet another apparent polling-industry failure.
Former and future President Trump will speak soon from Mar-a-Lago. Will he declare victory, or wait for Kamala Harris to concede in the morning?
UPDATE: Fox also calls Wisconsin, although DDHQ hasn’t yet done so.
