Fox News Decision Desk Director Arnon Mishkin told Insider that its method was designed to call elections more accurately, not necessarily more quickly.Fox News called Arizona for Democratic nominee Joe Biden early, reportedly irking the White House.
Mishkin emphasized that the Fox News Voter Analysis system is not designed to call elections faster, but simply more accurately.Fox News raised eyebrows on election night with their early calls for several states that other outlets waited on.made the White House "livid," according to Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts.
Fox News Decision Desk Director Arnon Mishkin told Insider before the election that the new method — the Fox News Voter Analysis system — was designed simply to call elections more accurately, not necessarily more quickly. We'd gotten sort of comfortable with realizing, well, if there's a lead here, that doesn't mean it's a lead because we know there's going to be a skew with the results. After 2016, the leadership at Fox said, "We really need to come up with something new. The consortiums won't innovate, so we're pulling out, and you guys have to come up with something new.