On Thursday night, Arizona’s FOX 10 Channel aired the “results” of the upcoming gubernatorial election 12 days before the actual election during their live broadcast.
FOX 10 posted an election update in the lower lefthand corner of their screen with Democrat Katie Hobbs ahead in the race by 7 points.
Katie Hobbs currently trails Republican Kari Lake by 11 points in the latest FOX 10 poll.
That’s an 18-point swing!
The broadcast did not go unnoticed.
Kari Lake tweeted this out.
Fox 10 called the election for @KatieHobbs TWELVE DAYS before Election Day pic.twitter.com/z4WhcNKhRu
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) October 28, 2022
This is also Kari Lake’s former TV station, where she was the number one anchor until she decided to walk away from the fake news media.
Charlie Kirk also tweeted on the broadcast error.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1585810763137970177
UPDATE: FOX 10 says the graphic was generated by the Associated Press! pic.twitter.com/4R7Nt2P1VA
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 28, 2022
FOX 10 Phoenix later announced this was an error caused by the Associated Press during testing.
This graphic was never meant to go on air — the numbers were only part of a test. The station has taken steps to make sure this cannot happen again.
— FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) October 28, 2022
This was just the latest media interference into the gubernatorial race.
Obviously, Fox 10 and AP are already betting against Kari Lake big, despite her massive lead in the polls.
So @AP is producing eerily similar numbers to AZ projected counts and providing that Katie Hobbs wins… just for test funsies? https://t.co/7hjhViZyHq
— Tyler Bowyer (@tylerbowyer) October 28, 2022
