Trump Campaign Says Fox News Decision Desk Boss Has ‘Prematurely’ Called Arizona for Biden

President Donald Trump’s campaign on Nov. 5 called out Fox News for what it said was a premature call that Democratic nominee Joe Biden had definitely won the swing state of Arizona. The campaign called the director of the network’s decision desk, Arnon Mishkin, a “Clinton-voting, Biden-donating Democrat.” Mishkin, a management consultant who runs the Fox News Channel’s decision desk, “prematurely called Arizona for Joe Biden before hundreds of thousands of ballots had been counted,” the Trump campaign said in a news release. “Even left-leaning election analysts like (538’s) Nate Silver have criticized the decision, but Mishkin is standing by his terrible decision despite and refusing to retract his unjustified call.” Fox News, which is owned by the Murdoch family’s Fox Corp, made the call for the battleground state of Arizona and its 11 electoral votes in favor of Biden at 11:20 p.m. on Nov. 3. At the time, Mishkin said …