WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsNation) — Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt said during the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump knew he would likely see an early lead due to a political phenomenon known as the “red mirage” but continued to push the narrative that the election was stolen.
In his testimony to the Select Jan. 6 Committee on Monday, Stirewalt — now the political editor for NewsNation — explained the red mirage is an expectation that Republican voters are more likely to vote in person, whereas Democrats are more likely to vote by mail, which can result in GOP candidates seeing an early lead while votes are counted that can swing later in the night.
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“In every election, certainly a national election, you expect to see the Republican with a lead, but it’s not really a lead,” Stirewalt said.
Because of the pandemic, Stirewalt and his team expected a higher percentage of mail-in ballots than in previous elections. It’s a fact, he said, Trump knew about and attempted to take advantage of.
“We had gone to pains — and I’m proud of the pains we went to — to make sure that we were informing viewers that this was going to happen because the Trump campaign and the president had made it clear that they were going to try to exploit this anomaly (the red mirage),” Stirewalt said.
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