My goal was to explain what Trump believed in and how he would govern if elected. I did all that as the Trump correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, and I did it with one audience in mind: the American voter. In the seventeen months before now, I visited more than forty states, filing more than thirty-eight hundred live TV reports. Only two hours ago, Hillary Clinton had an 85 percent chance. Trump has a 95 percent chance of winning the election, it says.
After predicting a Clinton victory for months, it has flipped. “Holy shit, you called it!” flashes a text from a friend who had been insisting, like nearly all the polls on Planet Earth, that Hillary was a lock. I pick up my phone and check the New York Timeselection forecast. If the future is a blank sheet of paper, this news rips it in two. The ballroom crowd of staffers, super supporters, and volunteers goes absolutely wild. Trump has just won it, along with all twenty-nine of its electoral votes. “We have a big call to make right now,” says Megyn Kelly, on the screen alongside Bret Baier.Īs the clock strikes 11 p.m., the Fox camera pans across the studio to a jumbotron to reveal an oversized yellow check mark next to Donald Trump’s grinning portrait and a picture of the state of Florida. At the center, there’s an empty podium gathering historical significance by the second. Fox News is playing on two big-screen televisions, framing a stage covered with American flags and punctuated by two glass cases, each containing a make america great again hat. I’m standing on the press riser at Donald Trump’s New York City Election Night headquarters.
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