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As the Trump show is cancelled, what next for Fox News?

The conservative cable network prepares for a spell in opposition

WITH FLORIDA in the bag, at 11.20pm on election night the party at the White House was in full swing. Then Fox News, playing on large television screens around the building, punctured the mood, calling Arizona for the Democrats—the first time a network had projected a Republican state to flip. Despite a complaint from the White House to Rupert Murdoch, Fox’s boss and one-time friend of the president, the Fox decision desk did not budge.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Season two is cancelled”

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