Director of Fox News Decision Desk Arnon Mishkin weighs in on the current state of the 2020 election.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Griff somebody who knows all
about Georgia and the other
states is the director of Fox
NEWS decision desk. He is
literally the man behind the
curtain,
laughter
hes, the guy that gets to make
the big calls and tell us
exactly who the winners and
losers are.
You know, as we look at it
still too early to call
Pennsylvania, North Carolina,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and
Nevada, which Griff Kind of
detailed right there.
I know youre, not a pollster
youre, an analyst
but isnt it clear that the
so called shy. Trump voter was
pretty much impossible for the
professional pollster to figure
out which way they were going to
vote
well before we start doing a
deep dive and an autopsy on the
polling this year, id like to
get the final votes in.
I think that you know the key
thing this year that made it so
so different was you had
election day vote and the
election day vote in person was
clearly republican,
and then you had early vote and
mail in vote, and that was
clearly democratic
and the skew was enormous. In
both cases,
I think Biden was winning the
early vote by twenty five points. Trump
was winning the election day
vote by twenty five points.
Trump won almost every state. On
the election, I day, Biden won
almost every state, with the
exception of North Dakota in the
early and mail in vote
trump, I think, may have lost
New York on the election day
vote, but nothing more
and so before we get it lets
get all those votes,
particularly the early and
mail in votes, which are the ones
that get counted last
thats. What were looking in
Michigan and Wisconsin in
particular,
thats. What Nevada is counting
right now,
thats? Why Georgia, you know
Trump is ahead,
but ooh its tough,
so right now what were looking
at is a place where, in order for
the president to win reelection
hes going to need to win
Georgia, which I think is very
doable North Carolina, which I
think is almost likely for him
right now and Pennsylvania,
who knows
even if he gets all those three
hes still at two hundred and sixty eight electoral
votes
and in order to win hes going
to have to win either Michigan
or Wisconsin.
And as you look at the vote
right now, those are, if
anything frankly, lets put it.
This way. When I look at
Michigan and Wisconsin right
now, we are nowhere near calling
it, but in those states id
rather be Joe Biden than Donald
Trump
in North Carolina and Georgia
id rather be Donald Trump than
Joe Biden
thats. How id put it
and in Pennsylvania I dont
know who id rather be
Ainsley? What, if Pennsylvania,
what if they dont finish,
counting all these votes until
the end of the day, Friday, the or
maybe even next week?
Would we if Trump does get
Georgia and North Carolina and
Biden gets Nevada that means
Wisconsin and Michigan?
If Wisconsin and Michigan go to
Trump, would he be the winner at
that point, or would we have to
wait on Pennsylvania
if the President wins both
Wisconsin and Michigan North
Carolina and Georgia hes the
next president,
if Biden wins Nevada, Wisconsin
and Michigan hes the next
president,
we all think that Pennsylvanias
ground zero,
it might not be.
It- may be Wisconsin and
Michigan
Brian. What distance do they
have to be this Pennsylvania to
not be waiting on them to count
every single ballot
right now to the layman, trumps
up pretty substantially six hundred thousand
votes, 55 43
and were kind of trying to
avoid them counting ballots with
no postmark on em for the next
couple of days?
What distance do you need? What
lead do you need to make it
secure
for the president thats the
sixty four thousand dollars question?
Historically, we look at the vote.
Thats come in and we say well.
The next votes are going to look
like that
this year we may new that the
president has a lead, but it
doesnt mean hes got a lead in
the state.
Hes got a lead in the election
day. Vote and whats left to be
counted is the early vote and
the mail in and thats what
Pennsylvania has shown itself
somewhat lackadaisical in
counting.
We saw that in the primaries
were seeing that now
we anticipate it could take days
in Pennsylvania to count the
early and mail in vote
and its not my job to decide
which votes should count or not
count,
thats the job of the courts and
the state and primarily state
legislatures,
my job to follow those whatever
regulations. They have and say,
whos going to win in that
thats, my teams, Job
Brian Sure,
Steve and right now in
Pennsylvania. According to your
team Fox NEWS, only sixty four percent of the
vote. It is in.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-04.