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Trump wins! Another chapter in mainstream media’s decline.

Washington Post - Erik Wemple · Erik Wemple · last updated

All the pundits and analysts and insiders said election night would be a slog, a nip-and-tuck grind between two presidential candidates tied in the polls. Hunker down.

Well: At 7:03 p.m., MSNBC’s famous election quant Steve Kornacki examined some early numbers from fast-counting Florida. Osceola County, he said, is a jurisdiction worthy of scrutiny because it has the highest concentration of Puerto Ricans in Florida. In light of the insult to Puerto Ricans at a late October Trump rally, it made sense to compare Trump’s numbers in the county against those of his previous runs.

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