After months of buildup, news outlets finally have the chance to report on election results

The last reply whitethorn aliases whitethorn not travel connected Tuesday, but news organizations that person spent months reporting connected nan presidential campaign betwixt Kamala Harris and Donald Trump yet person nan opportunity to report connected existent results.

Broadcast, cablegram news networks, integer news outlets’ sites and 1 streaming work — Amazon — each group speech Tuesday nighttime to present nan news from their ain operations.

Actual results will beryllium a alleviation to news organizations that had weeks — and an excruciatingly agelong time of voting — to talk astir an predetermination run that polls person many times shown to be remarkably tight. The first hint of what voters were reasoning came soon aft 5 p.m. Eastern, erstwhile networks reported that exit polls showed voters were unhappy pinch nan measurement nan state was going.

It’s still not clear whether that dissatisfaction will beryllium blamed on Harris, nan existent vice president, aliases erstwhile President Trump, who was voted retired of agency successful 2020, CNN’s Dana Bash said.

Trying to tie meaning from anecdotal evidence

Otherwise, networks were near showing pictures of polling places connected Tuesday and trying to extract contented from anecdotal evidence.

“Dixville Notch is simply a metaphor for nan full race,” CNN’s Alyssa Farah Griffin said, making efforts to tie meaning from nan mini New Hampshire organization that reported its 3-3 ballot for Harris and Trump successful nan early greeting hours connected Tuesday.

MSNBC assigned newsman Jacob Soboroff to talk to voters waiting successful statement extracurricular a polling spot adjacent Temple University successful Philadelphia, wherever character Paul Rudd was handing retired h2o bottles. Soboroff was called connected by 1 young elector to return a image pinch herself and Rudd.

On Fox News Channel, Harris surrogate Pete Buttigieg appeared for a contentious question and reply pinch “Fox & Friends” big Brian Kilmeade.

“Is this an question and reply aliases a debate?” Buttigieg said astatine 1 point. “Can I astatine slightest decorativeness nan sentence?”

Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams began a one-night quality connected Amazon to present results, and he already had 1 unexpected impermanent successful nan California workplace wherever he was operating. Puck newsman Tara Palmeri was expected to study from Trump office successful West Palm Beach, but was denied credentials to be by nan erstwhile president’s team.

Trump run head Chris LaCivita, successful revealing nan banishment, described her arsenic a “gossip columnist” successful a station connected nan societal media tract X. Palmeri told Williams that she had accurately reported immoderate worry wrong nan Trump campy astir who was voting early.

Amazon said Palmeri was replaced astatine Trump’s Florida office by New York Post newsman Lydia Moynihan.

Neither Axios aliases Politico would instantly corroborate reports that immoderate of their reporters were likewise banned, and nan Trump run did not instantly return a telephone for comment.

New York Times onslaught affects an predetermination nighttime fixture

One notable predetermination nighttime media fixture — nan Needle connected The New York Times’ website — was endangered by a onslaught by method workers astatine nan newspaper.

The newspaper said early Tuesday that it was unclear whether it would beryllium capable to see nan characteristic connected its website during predetermination nighttime sum since it relies connected machine systems maintained by engineers astatine nan company, including immoderate who went connected onslaught early Monday.

The Needle, arsenic its sanction suggests, is simply a schematic that uses voting results and different calculations to constituent toward nan likelihood of either statesmanlike campaigner winning.

First introduced successful 2016, it became nightmare-inducing for supporters of Democrat Hillary Clinton, who nan Times wished had an 85% percent chance of winning nan election. Readers watched arsenic nan Needle moved from forecasting a “likely” Clinton triumph astatine nan opening of predetermination night, to “toss-up” by 10 p.m. Eastern to “leaning Trump” astatine midnight. Trump won nan election.

The Times said that “we will only people a unrecorded type of nan Needle if we are confident” that nan machine systems it relies upon for information are stable.

Some 650 members of nan Times’ Tech Guild went connected onslaught early Monday.

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David Bauder writes astir media for nan AP. Follow him astatine http://x.com/dbauder.