Four days after Election Day is the over/under for when Fox News will likely declare a presidential election winner, Arnon Mishkin, the head of the network’s decision desk, said.
Mishkin’s prediction indicates the race will be too close to call for several days after the election, a predicament that mirrors the 2020 election.
“The over/under is Saturday,” Mishkin told Politico. “Which was when the call was made last time.”
Mishkin is technically a consultant for Fox News and not an employee of the network. He has worked with Fox News since 2008 and infamously defended Fox News’s early call in 2020 for Biden in Arizona.
Mishkin explained his prediction:
I think we had a pretty good understanding of how they were going to report [in 2020]. What we don’t know now — but we kind of knew then — was that there was going to be an enormous skew in the vote type. I believe that Joe Biden won every state in the mail-in vote with the exception of Alabama — and that Trump won every state on Election Day with the exception of Vermont and maybe Connecticut. I can’t remember exactly, but there was a huge skew. I