Here we go again with this shit: The New York Post reports Pennsylvania ABC affiliate WNEP accidentally ran a graphic showing Vice President Kamala Harris taking 52 percent of the vote in the state to convicted felon former President Trump’s 47 percent at 100 percent of precincts reporting during a broadcast of a Formula 1 race on Sunday. “The graphic caused a stir on social media, prompting claims of election rigging,” the Post writes and wow, who would’ve expected that?
“The numbers were not reflective of any actual vote count. Pennsylvania law does not allow mail-in ballots to be taken out of their envelopes until 7:00 am on Election Day, and no votes of any kind will be counted in Pennsylvania until after the polls close at 8:00 pm. WNEP regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion. We have taken steps to ensure that it does not happen again,” the station said in a statement. The whole episode echoes a 2022 fuckup when a Fox affiliate in Phoenix, funnily enough the former employer of gubernatorial loser Kari Lake, made the same mistake and showed her down more than 100,000 votes to eventual winner Katie Hobbs.
The Post doesn’t mention that incident, nor do they mention their own similar little oops from the same year when they accidentally published to their website a pre-write reporting Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock had won the runoff vs dipshit Herschel Walker a few hours before he actually did.
Instead they write ABC News is “under fire during the election season, following the network’s airing of the presidential debate on September 10. Critics accused ABC News and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis of bias in favor of Harris,” and ughhhh they really go there with “In addition, an anonymous whistleblower alleged ABC handed questions to the Harris campaign ahead of the debate, according to reports,” just outright ignoring that the Associated Press already tracked down the asshole who made up the “whistleblower” story and revealed that he’s a fucking fraud.