{"id":1737999,"date":"2022-11-14T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737999"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:34:05","slug":"media-defends-nevadas-slow-election-vote-count-after-condemning-delayed-tally-in-2020-iowa-caucuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-defends-nevadas-slow-election-vote-count-after-condemning-delayed-tally-in-2020-iowa-caucuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Defends Nevada\u2019s Slow Election Vote Count After Condemning Delayed Tally in 2020 Iowa Caucuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-defends-nevadas-slow-election-vote-count-after-condemning-delayed-tally-in-2020-iowa-caucuses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737999&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Many of the mainstream <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-media\">media<\/a> outlets that are currently defending the slow counting of votes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nevada\">Nevada<\/a> and Arizona following\u00a0November\u2019s midterm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elections\">elections<\/a>, had criticized the very same thing in coverage of the 2020 Democratic Iowa caucuses, according to media watchdog NewsBusters.<\/p>\n<p>NewsBusters,\u00a0a project of the\u00a0Media Research Center, works to expose and combat liberal media bias, according to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/about\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The watchdog compiled a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Banned_Bill\/status\/1591151391195529216\">video montage<\/a> of reporters from outlets such as\u00a0MSNBC,\u00a0CNN, ABC News, and CBS News in which they repeatedly state that the lengthy vote-counting process in Arizona this month is \u201cnormal,\u201d \u201cordinary,\u201d and \u201cpart of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arizona has taken\u00a0days to count its votes for the governor and the U.S. Senate races following Tuesday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the first video published by\u00a0NewsBusters is a second montage in which hosts from those same media outlets condemn the slow vote-counting process in the major 2020 Democratic contest in Iowa, and bemoan still not knowing who had won days after the elections had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>In the first video,\u00a0MSNBC\u2019s Katy Tur tells viewers, \u201cThe truth everyone, as you know, is that it\u2019s going to take time and that is normal,\u201d while\u00a0MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele states that this is \u201cpart of the process\u201d and \u201cnormal\u201d while urging viewers not to get upset.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere,\u00a0ABC reporter Terry Moran tells \u201cGood Morning America\u201d viewers: \u201cThis is normal. Ordinary Arizonans will continue the ordinary work of\u00a0counting votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS News and CNN anchors and correspondents also repeatedly state that the vote-counting process\u00a0\u201ctakes time\u201d and urge viewers to be patient.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4859319\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12\/laxalt-masto-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4859319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/laxalt-masto-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4859319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/laxalt-masto-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (L) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) in file photographs. (Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Caucus Chaos\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>In contrast, reporters from those same stations in 2020 criticized the\u00a0vote-counting process in Iowa, with MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson telling viewers: \u201cBreaking this morning, the Iowa caucuses. They\u2019re what\u2019s breaking because the system is actually broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo called the delayed results an\u00a0\u201cepic failure by the Iowa state Democratic Party\u201d while\u00a0CBS\u2019s Gayle King states, \u201cIt seems the jokes are going to start writing themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporters from CNN, MSNBC, and ABC repeatedly refer to what they call \u201ccaucus chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NewsBusters senior research analyst Bill D\u2019Agostino shared the videos on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Banned_Bill\/status\/1591103302787158021\">writing:<\/a> \u201cVote counting for the 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus was so abysmally bad that even the media dunked on it. Keep in mind, this is the same media who are now wagging their fingers at you like kindergarten teachers, and lecturing you about patience in Arizona and Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Nevada were still accepting mail-in ballots through Saturday evening, as long as they were postmarked on or before the day of the election, in accordance with state law.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is projected to defeat Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in Nevada, according to The Associated Press, Decision Desk HQ, and other outlets, granting the Democrats the 50 seats they need for an effective majority and ending Republican hopes of flipping the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2022\/nov\/13\/democrats-celebrate-election-results-as-rejection-\/\">speech<\/a> in Las Vegas on Sunday, Cortez Masto said her win shows that \u201cNevadans rejected the far-right politicians working to divide us\u201d and that, \u201cWhen far-right Republicans said they knew better, I knew we would prove them wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laxalt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamLaxalt\/status\/1591457041977311232\">said<\/a> on Twitter on Saturday that his \u201cvictory window\u201d has narrowed but is yet to concede defeat in the race.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-elected Senate will be sworn-in on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-katabella-roberts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ttl7dayERL_WEB_KatabellaRoberts.jpg\" alt=\"Katabella Roberts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katabella Roberts is a news writer for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and business news.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the mainstream media outlets that are currently defending the slow counting of votes in Nevada and Arizona following\u00a0November\u2019s midterm elections, had criticized the very same thing in coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1737382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}