The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt is launching Sunday, March 3, at 10 a.m. ET.
Chris Stirewalt was part of a pivotal decision to declare Joe Biden the winner of Arizona in 2020. Now he’s speaking out about a network he says incites “black-helicopter-level paranoia and hatred.”
Chris Stirewalt Lost His Job At Fox News. But He Knows He Was Right
The politics editor behind the Arizona call in 2020 that enraged Trump brought his journalism bona fides to the House Jan 6. hearing.
At Fox News, there was little drama over the decision to project Joseph R. Biden the winner of Arizona. But the relationship between Trump and the network was never the same.
Stirewalt had been with Fox News Channel since 2010 but left after the network called Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, angering conservatives.
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I Called Arizona For Biden On Fox News. Here’s What I Learned
Chris Stirewalt: “Having worked in cable news for more than a decade after a wonderfully misspent youth in newspapers, I can tell you the result: a nation of news consumers both overfed and malnourished. Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.”
Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox’s Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday. On Tuesday, as part of a restructuring of Fox’s digital operations, politics editor Chris Stirewalt was let go. Fox’s decision — the correct one — to call Arizona for Joe Biden took the network’s anchors by surprise and infuriated the White House, which believed the determination was premature.
Fox News Channel has tapped Dana Perino (l) and Chris Stirewalt to host a Sunday program through the current election cycle. Perino & Stirewalt: I’ll Tell You What is the first new program to launch on the 21st Century Fox-owned network since the departure of longtime leader Roger Ailes.
