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Many news organizations and pollsters argued that the 2024 election wouldn’t be decided on Tuesday night. That was technically true, as the first calls claiming Donald Trump had won the presidency didn’t come until early Wednesday morning, but NewsNation and Newsmax were the first to say the race was over.
At 1:22 AM ET on Wednesday, NewsNation officially became the first television network to project the 2024 presidential race had been won by the Republican nominee.
The call was announced by NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, who said “It is just after 1:22 in the morning eastern time and this is the biggest call of the night. Decision Desk HQ can now project that former President Donald Trump will be our next president, 47th President of the United States.”
Newsmax was not far behind, as they also called the race at 1:23 AM ET.
“The Pennsylvania race was extremely close, but it became clear that there was no pathway for Kamala Harris to overcome President Trump’s lead,” Newsmax Senior Vice President of News Gary Kanofsky said.
“We kept crunching the data and it became obvious as more votes came in that Donald Trump had established an insurmountable lead. That’s when we were confident it was time to make the call.”
NewsNation, in partnership with Decision Desk HQ, was also the first network to project that North Carolina and Georgia had been won by the former President.
I called BS I watched it live on all of the channels at the same time on my four different TVs. News nation was not the first to call it nor were they the first to call Georgia and North Carolina. So you guys are full of BS. Now I have a reason not to tune in to news Nation anymore. Plus the bias hypocrite Como that was fired from CNN. His hypocrisy and hatred for Trump still shines. You’re not fooling anybody. You’re another fake News channel trying to be relevant. I’m done I will never watch your station again I don’t like being fed BS..