Fox News accidentally reported Donald Trump as the winner in New Hampshire’s Republican primary on Tuesday morning – more than six hours before the polls closed.
With all precincts reporting, Fox published results showing Trump winning the first-in-the-nation primary with 28 percent of the vote, enough to secure 14 delegates, according to the premature numbers posted online Tuesday morning.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) came in second with 15 percent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) polled at 12 percent, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 11 percent, each sharing three delegates in Fox News’ erroneous results.
Fox’s Chief Digital Officer Jeff Misenti told Politico: “during routine testing in preparation for the New Hampshire primary a malfunction occurred which briefly showed errant data on our website.”
Fox News’ election result page has since been corrected.
Conservative pundit Charles C.W. Cooke first flagged the errant results.
Fox calls the NH primary, for some reason. Do they know something we don’t? https://t.co/DNtiKUx64J pic.twitter.com/3sn3I9EWVK
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 9, 2016