He Helped Build Fox News’ Decision Desk. Now NewsNation Hopes He’ll Break Out On Election Day
Four years ago, Chris Stirewalt was at the center of a political firestorm.
As a member of the Fox News Decision Team, he spent the 2020 election night huddled with other data nerds to decide when states could be called for Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
It was Fox’s call for Arizona, made far earlier than competitors, that rattled the campaign and became a major news story in and of itself, with repercussions that were felt across the political and media landscape.
For 2024, Stirewalt won’t be huddled in a back room. He will be front and center, as an on-air analyst for NewsNation, the upstart cable news channel owned by the local TV giant Nexstar.
This time, he wants to bring viewers inside the room, to try and reverse engineer how TV networks have called elections for the better part of the last 75 years.
“There was a sort of Wizard of Oz component,...
As a member of the Fox News Decision Team, he spent the 2020 election night huddled with other data nerds to decide when states could be called for Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
It was Fox’s call for Arizona, made far earlier than competitors, that rattled the campaign and became a major news story in and of itself, with repercussions that were felt across the political and media landscape.
For 2024, Stirewalt won’t be huddled in a back room. He will be front and center, as an on-air analyst for NewsNation, the upstart cable news channel owned by the local TV giant Nexstar.
This time, he wants to bring viewers inside the room, to try and reverse engineer how TV networks have called elections for the better part of the last 75 years.
“There was a sort of Wizard of Oz component,...
- 11/4/2024
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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