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US election: as political winds change, is Rupert Murdoch ditching Trump?
- Fox News infuriated Trump by calling Arizona for Biden and the president’s son-in-law called Murdoch in vain to try to get that call retracted
- The media mogul is known for his conservative views but over the past few months has come to grips with the idea of a Biden win
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Fox News and the New York Post, magnate Rupert Murdoch’s main media outlets, have started distancing themselves from Donald Trump as the US election vote counting drama drags on – a first since the president came to power and a potential turning point.
On Thursday night in Phoenix, Arizona, supporters of Trump bluntly shouted “Fox News Sucks” in reference to the news outfit considered fiercely loyal to the president for the past five years.
Fox News infuriated Trump and his people on election night by calling Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden.
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Jared Kushner, Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, called Murdoch in vain to try to get that call retracted. Other media held off from calling the battleground state for Biden as the tallying of ballots continued.
Since that night, Fox News has stepped very carefully around allegations of massive vote fraud coming from the Trump campaign and the man himself.
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“We just haven’t seen it. It hasn’t been presented to us,” Fox News anchor Brett Baier said on the air on Friday.
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