How news outlets are bracing for an election night cliffhanger
CNN
As polls show a dead heat between Trump and Harris in the final days of the race, news outlets are preparing an anxious nation for the likelihood that election night will stretch into an election week.
By all accounts, it is unlikely Americans will go to bed on Election Day knowing who their next president will be. As polls show a dead heat between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the final days of the race, news outlets are preparing an anxious nation for the likelihood that election night will stretch into an election week. Already, in the days before the Nov. 5 election, misinformation about everything from ballot stuffing to voting machines has gone viral on social media, forcing news organizations to be even more transparent with their audiences about how they plan to project winners in the high-stakes election. Most major media outlets around the country rely on a handful of organizations to crunch the numbers and make race calls. Among them: The Associated Press, the National Election Pool and Decision Desk HQ. The AP, an independent news collective that has been calling elections since the 1800s, plans to deploy roughly 4,000 vote reporters to precincts across the country to be its eyes and ears as ballots are counted, said AP executive editor Julie Pace. “With the way that misinformation has really, really flourished, and the speed at which misinformation moves, you’re going to see us do a lot more to pull back the curtain on now leading into the election, on what we’re looking at, as we are going to be looking at the vote and calling races and then coming out of those race calls, how we did it,” Pace told CNN. Election officials in several battleground states have already said that misinformation promoted by Elon Musk has created a “huge problem” as they struggle to combat a flood of false claims from the billionaire X owner and his social media platform. Trump and his allies have also continued to repeat the lie that the former president won in 2020, a bogus claim amplified in right-wing media that led to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
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