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Donald Trump supporters chant ‘Fox News Sucks’ at Million MAGA March as network calls election for Joe Biden

Fox News was subjected to severe backlash from Trump supporters when it became the first network to call the state of Arizona for Biden

Donald Trump supporters during Saturday’s, November 14, "Million MAGA March" dissed Fox News after the network called the election for President-elect Joe Biden. Walking the streets in large numbers, pro-Trump supporters chanted “Fox News sucks” while carrying flags that read Trump 2020. 

A video was shared by HuffPost editor Philip Lewis who wrote in the caption, “Trump supporters are now marching toward the Supreme Court, chanting 'Fox News sucks!' However, he corrected himself in the following tweet and said that Trump supporters were headed towards the Capitol in Washington DC. The viral video has gathered immense attention with over 5,000 comments and more than 12,000 re-tweets. 

Fox News was subjected to severe backlash from Trump supporters when it became the first network to call the state of Arizona for Biden. Fox News Decision Desk Director Arnon Mishkin came under fire for calling the state on election night, even though the results turned out to be in their favor. 

Mishkin was told to retract the call by statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, who wrote on his website, "I don't know, I guess I'd say that Biden will win Arizona if you forced me to pick, but I sure as heck don't think the state should have been called by anyone, and I think the calls that were previously made should be retracted now.”

Mishkin refused to retract the call and said "It's been clear for a while that the former vice president is in the lead in Arizona and was most likely to win the state.”

"I think we've heard from the White House is that they need just to get 61 percent of the outstanding vote and their 870,000 outstanding votes and they'll be getting that. That's not true. The reality is that they're likely to get only about 44 percent of the outstanding votes there. We're right now sitting on a race that is Biden at 53 percent, Trump at 46 percent," he added further. 

He further noted that the president will not be able to “able to take over and win enough votes” to win against Biden. Meanwhile, Trump has been using his Twitter handle to express his anger and disappointment with the news network. On November 12, he shared a post to Twitter claiming the news channel’s rating had collapsed.

He wrote, “@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed. Weekend daytime even WORSE. Very sad to watch this happen, but they forgot what made them successful, what got them there. They forgot the Golden Goose. The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!”

A few hours ago, he slammed Fox News in another tweet for not covering pro-Trump supporters' march. He wrote, "@FoxNews and the Fake News Networks aren’t showing these massive gatherings. Instead, they have their reporters standing in almost empty streets. We now have SUPPRESSION BY THE PRESS. MAGA!"

On November 7, Fox News sparked fury after calling the entire election for Biden. American right-wing activist lawyer Larry Klayman called on the network in his piece to WND saying, “Do not be fooled by the gyrations of Fox News or other 'mainstream' so-called conservative media, which are, as usual, holding out false hope that the legal system will right the wrongs that occurred on November 3, 2020, with regard to the corrupt voting system."