Correction, Please!
Calling the Game
Item: The New York Times definitively announced the presidential victory of Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, under the headline “Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins.” It included a map showing Biden at 279 electoral votes to President Donald Trump’s 217.
Item: Also on Saturday, November 7, the New York Times — not content to prematurely announce that Biden had won — ran an article about how he had won. The article — subtly entitled “How Joe Biden Won the Presidency,” stated that Biden “campaigned as a sober and conventional presence, concerned about the ‘soul of the country.’” It went on to say, “He correctly judged the character of the country, and benefited from President Trump’s missteps.”
That piece claimed “Americans made Mr. Biden only the third man since the Second World War to topple a duly elected president after just one term.” And after describing the tension in the Biden camp when early votes favored Trump, the article stated, “Within a matter of hours, Mr. Biden’s fortunes had improved as the big cities of the North reported their votes.”
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