Fake News Media Declares Donald Trump The Winner of Iowa in Like 20 Seconds...
So Is This A Good Time To Remind Everybody This Isn't How Elections Actually Work?
It took President Donald J. Trump about 2 minutes to be declared the winner of Iowa by the news media.
And after what I saw in 2020, I have a really serious problem with that. Let me explain:
While Trump winning in overwhelming fashion was the expected result, just remember what you learned in 2020: the media has no power to declare who wins a race.
Now they and their talking heads on your TV will do their enthusiastic best to try to convince that they do have this amazing power to declare who has won an electoral contest.
But that’s not true.
Does anybody else remember election night 2020, when Fox New’s Decision Desk called Arizona for Joe Biden with something like 3% of the vote counted?
Because **I** sure do.
The news media can claim to the watching/reading audience who their 'experts' THINK won a race and they can make this declaration to you at any time.
Now it was obvious to many that Trump was going to win Iowa in overwhelming fashion.
But if you think the Fake News Media did Trump a FAVOR tonight by declaring the race OVER and raising Trump's hand as the VICTOR like 20 seconds after the caucus' opened, I want you to consider something.
The Fake News Media has no power to raise **anybody's** hand and declare they just won any more than you or I do.
We need to stop falling this same stupid trick of being conditioned to believe a race is over when the Fake News "declares" who the winner is before most of the votes are in.
Even when it benefits your chosen candidate, as it did tonight in Iowa, if Trump is who you are supporting for President.
The news media is a noisemaking/attention grabbing machine. It has no real power or authority to declare a race is over and who won it. It can, as an observer, make comments as to who they believe has won it, but what they can't do is declare someone the victor.
That's not how elections are supposed to work. Iowa election officials – hey remember them! – are the ones who, after the votes are all counted will state in what order the candidates finished in.
Not the New York Times. Not the Washington Post. Not CBS/ABC/NBC. Not Frank Luntz. Not Rachel Maddow. Not Brett Baier. Not you. Not me.
The election officials that are handling the election. That’s THEIR job and I would not presume to do their job for them.
It didn’t matter tonight, but I’ll tell you something. It will extremely problematic going forward in this 2024 election year if people are stupidly still buying into this fiction that news media outlets have this amazing power to declare who won a race. Because there will be some close election races this year.
And I guarantee you the Fake News Media is going to keenly be on the lookout for any close races they can influence by calling it for a certain candidate early and often.
Just remember: they don’t actually have this power they are claiming to you that they have.
They never did, and they never will.
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Excellent simple point.
Great point!