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>> channeling it three times -- michigan, michigan, michigan -- … Brewster: We’re always talking to voters, digging into what the energy is behind people’s votes. Vitali: Katy was sitting in a chair and I think I was sitting at her feet. Unclear who will get the city of Miami in the breakup. All of our lives are going to change. that's why individual states like michigan are who we're watching. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. I’ve seen calls reversed, I’ve seen predictions go wrong. Coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie co-anchor election night coverage on November 8, 2016. I remember him saying midway through, “Uh-oh, I need to maybe start this over because the image I started to sketch is not the one I’m ending with.”. In a limited series for Warner Bros. Television. It was a little bit jarring to have people sitting on the floor, crying, with “Fight Song” playing in the background. Despite Ohio being a swing state, in 2016, It was a very easy call [for Trump]. LIVE: Watch 2016 election night coverageNov. Coverage and analysis of the 2016 presidential election. Alba: In the 7 o’clock to 9 o’clock range, the Clinton staffers were huddled in their own back room, so we weren’t interacting with them much. Michael Cohen was running around the room like he was Paul Revere saying, “Which polls? Kellyanne Conway was on with Chuck Todd, and she was saying the same thing — that the RNC didn’t lend their full support. Don't stand still. We’d drive out to Clinton events and there would be Trump signs along the road. Monica Alba, NBC News embed on the Clinton campaign in 2016: Election Day for us really began at 3:30 a.m. after a series of rallies Secretary Clinton had done the night … As election results came in, Tur and Ali Vitali set up camp at the New York Hilton Midtown, site of Trump’s post-election party; Alba was at the Javits Center, where the Clinton camp was preparing to give a victory speech; Williams anchored from the MSNBC studio at 30 Rock, where Kornacki and Hunt also reported on air. Vitali: It was a very “I told you so” atmosphere, which felt a little hypocritical given the fact that everyone on the campaign hadn’t felt super bullish about their chances not four hours prior. The Trump folks were saying specifically in Florida that they didn’t think the RNC had done enough, and generally, that mistrust between the RNC and the Trump campaign was starting to bubble up. They were very gracious to have me on the set. pic.twitter.com/7rTclkSkyO. 8, 2016. What could go wrong? People were rifling through them, grabbing confetti for a confetti cannon that was never going to be fired off. Tur: When Donald Trump took Florida, it was like the cork was popped on the Champagne at the Hilton. The Clinton campaign was so optimistic, they were doing the Mannequin Challenge. Oscar Futures: Our Last, Best Guess at the Nominations. And also that the throwing under the bus process had already begun. Kornacki: At about 7:45 at night, I was looking down at Miami-Dade County in Florida, and I was saying, “From the exit poll I’ve seen this looks like what was expected. Stephen Baldwin was in the crowd, Alec Baldwin’s brother. 2016 Election Night Flashback — Top 14 Media Meltdowns. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Alba: My friend and colleague Kristen Welker was in the Javits Center with me that night, and we were comparing notes. these are pretty narrow paths that each of them are going to be following. Then someone from the Virginia Trump team happened to whiz by me outside the ballroom and they looked really harried and confused, but also a little excited at the prospect that maybe this wasn’t an entire loss for the campaign. MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson and Lindsey Reiser, One year later and no justice for Breonna Taylor: “Black women are not safe in the nation we built for free.”, George Floyd's family attorney on Chauvin trial: Justice will look like 'a guilty verdict', Director of the National Institutes of Health on Biden admin so far: “It’s quite a different scene”, Republicans take spanking from Trump, ask for more. AP Photo/Matt Rourke. Ali Vitali, NBC News embed on the Trump campaign in 2016: Oh, there was a cake. You’re sort of primed as an embed that you run through the chaos of Election Night and then the next day, regardless of the results, you can breathe a little bit. I think it was very clear that this was not like any other election. Tur: As Trump’s prospects looked better and better, the crowd, which at this point had been drinking since five o’clock, was getting rowdier and happier and more excited. Visit Decision 2016 at NBCNews.com for the latest news about the 2016 election, including debates, polls, and results. Election Night 2016MSNBC November 8, 2016 2:00pm-3:01pm PST. MSNBC’s live election night coverage (officially known as Decision 2020) will kick off Tuesday at 6 p.m. Dr. Fauci Tells Stephen Colbert He Can’t Go Clubbing Yet. It was something we thought would happen if the results looked bad, but we hadn’t really seen results yet. ... Chris Rock, Beck Bennett, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election. How much are we not realizing, or what did we miss? Tilda Swinton wears gorgeous outfits and acts out in the Spanish director’s adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play. That’s when they called Florida for Trump. On that final night, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were touchy-feely, hugging each other, making jokes to the press, coming back and talking to reporters. Show: POLITICS NATION Date: November 6, 2016 Guest: April Ryan, A.J. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. It’s all over after this. Watch Decision Night in America with NBC's Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd and Tom Brokaw. Also, being very humble to the fact that I am not out there on the road like our reporters are, so making sure I trust and I listen to and I get the most informative reporting out of our political reporters who have been out there and are talking to people. But that way of doing it, honestly, was undermined in 2016. It’s New York City and he gets confronted with an overwhelming number of boos from the crowd. Kellyanne Conway just said it on television with Chuck.” I think Sean said something like, “She did?” And then he hung up immediately. Alba: There was a moment where all of the Clinton supporters just started to collectively sit down. What most people remember about November 8, 2016 is the shock: the realization that Donald Trump, former host of The Apprentice, would be our next commander-in-chief. I just said maybe.” The crowd is still super-excited, but it wasn’t until 11 o’clock at night where things became abundantly clear. Tur: Anthony, my producer, and I go to the Hilton at around five o’clock. Kasie Hunt, NBC correspondent covering the Clinton campaign in 2016: We woke up after coming back from the rally the night before and went with Clinton to vote. LIVE: Watch 2016 election night coverage. It was a feeling like, Oh my god. L-R: Trump camp reporters Anthony Terrell, Katy Tur, Ali Vitali, and Jeremy Diamond on the campaign plane. And Roy Wood Jr. gave a compelling breakdown of who hates who around the world. Vote today: https://t.co/jfd3CXLD1s #ElectionDay #MannequinChallenge pic.twitter.com/4KAv2zu0rd. It includes an entirely new thematic section, a new vamp section and other minor updates. Official Trump cake. Katy Tur, NBC correspondent covering the Trump campaign in 2016: Even though the Trump press corps had been pushing back on this idea that Donald Trump had no chance, the prevailing emotion was that Donald Trump was going to lose. They look like decent Democratic numbers. Alba: I remember getting to Javits, and it was such a giant building with so many reporters and people. Tur: I spent the morning and afternoon inside 30 Rock, and I watched Donald Trump go to vote in Midtown Manhattan on our internal system. ... and eps John Reiss and Pat Burkey produced the night’s coverage while on the 7th floor, ... MSNBC Election … I noticed there was a cash bar. John Nolte. A lot of predictions were wrong in 2016. COVERAGE -- Election Night 2016 -- Pictured: Hallie Jackson, NBC News Correspondent, on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 in New York -- Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Season 13 has found its footing again with a satisfying spin on a dependable challenge and some high-stakes shake-ups. I remember tweeting something about that and immediately getting a call from Sean Spicer, who at that time worked for the RNC. It was about this assault on truth and objectivity that I had been experiencing for all this time. I was always taught you don’t use road signs or even crowd size to make assumptions about the state of a campaign. I remember seeing Lena Dunham, who went home before the thing was called, when the night was looking grim for the Democrats. These are his wealthy and well-connected friends around town. And as if Chris could feel the crowd in the room, even though he was in the studio in New York, he said, “Hold on, hold on. Several key reporters and anchors at MSNBC took a trip down memory lane with Vulture, through the Mannequin Challenges, the phone calls from an irked Sean Spicer, and a planned celebration for Hillary Clinton that turned into the worst kind of purgatory. It was brought out really early. Like the sitcom-superhero show itself, Schaeffer’s work on. He could be the next president of the United States.” The whole room at the Hilton just explodes in this cheer. The one story you shouldn't miss today, selected by, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, By submitting your email, you agree to our, An Oral History of Election Night 2016 at MSNBC, French Actress Dons Donkey Costume, Strips Nude in César Awards Demonstration, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Reportedly Split, Ending Two-Year Engagement. Brian Williams: Much of the data we were getting didn’t make a whole lot of sense. We had been in an arena where Lady Gaga was playing the piano and Jon Bon Jovi was dancing and singing on top of the piano. Of course, the glass ceiling wasn’t lost on anybody there. LIVE: Watch 2016 election night coverage. So in the final days and hours, I’m going to have that in the back of my mind as well. Katy and I were talking about that and it was a very heavy feeling to know the chaos was going to keep going the way it had. We are able to see the other networks on our studio monitors, but we cannot let it affect what we say on the air. During the 2016 election, Savannah started the morning on … Watch Saturday Night Live highlight 'Election Night' on NBC.com. We hear from them when they make a call. Williams: The live split-screen coverage of the two New York venues told the story in real time — the crowd milling around the Javits Center, shocked at the loss, and the crowd milling around the ballroom of the New York Hilton, shocked at the victory. Delgado (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) AL SHARPTON, MSNBC HOST: Good morning. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. Kornacki: The specific polling error in 2016 was one that redounded to Trump’s benefit, ultimately in the Midwest. Vitali: I think around 5 o’clock, my best source on the Trump campaign called me, half to check in and half to say he’s not feeling bullish about the chances going forward. It wasn’t like one of the president’s big, giant 5,000-person rallies. I had security. Now that PGA, DGA, and BAFTA have weighed in, who are we picking? So it was probably fitting that the ratings victory went to the network that helped him get there, NBC, where he became a TV star on The Apprentice . All rights reserved. He buys a couple of cookies off the kids, gives them $20, and then hands the bag of cookies to Melania and says, “I’m going to eat these later.”. We were all outside of the voting location. That was the jovial experience of that last plane ride when we landed in Westchester. And yeah, I could see this being a Clinton night based on these numbers.”. Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews and the MSNBC team deliver in-depth coverage and analysis of the 2016 presidential election. A brand-new error could emerge in polling this year that also ends up being a plus for Trump, or it could go the other way completely. Alba: At the same time, with this pandemic, it’s been so much more difficult to get a consistent sense on the ground of what’s happening. Hunt: I went on the air and said something to the effect of, “All of these people that I had been talking to earlier in the evening had thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win. Sign up here to get it nightly. Based on conversations with people who sat out in 2016 after voting in 2012 or 2008, I really do get the feeling that there are more people taking this seriously and coming out and making sure they vote. Kornacki: It was somewhere right between those three — Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia — that it hit me that this was a very different night than had been expected. Election Day 2016 update Rachel Maddow rounds up which states have yet to be called in the 2016 presidential election, and looks and some of … $64.99/mo for 85+ live channels. What we expected was what ended up happening. He was telling me, “No, it’s absolutely not true. It felt like you can’t breathe. This is a small room in the Hilton. Secretary Clinton was not somebody who was optimistic at all throughout the campaign. A wake for the forward-thinking pop producer, featuring family, friends, collaborators, and followers. Sources: Monica Alba, NBC News political reporter; Shaq Brewster, NBC News political reporter; Kasie Hunt, anchor of Way Too Early With Kasie Hunt; Steve Kornacki, NBC News national political correspondent and worker of the big election results board; Katy Tur, anchor of MSNBC Live With Katy Tur; Ali Vitali, NBC News political correspondent; Brian Williams, anchor of The 11th Hour With Brian Williams. TOPIC FREQUENCY. Tur: It wasn’t about political party or partisanship. And now a significant number of them are saying it is possible that she is going to lose and that Trump is going to win the election.” We all know where Rachel Maddow stands on Trump, and I remember the look on her face was all of a sudden much different. It can only accommodate a few hundred supporters, and these aren’t the supporters you see at rallies. So the mood on the press plane was, This is the end. It was a bust of Trump in a suit. The reason is that those indicators can be artificial. I got death threats. ET with the Nightly News, followed by an all-night special report. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. Tur: I walked from the ballroom back to my corporate apartment, and walking through Times Square, seeing Times Square completely empty, there was a silence that had washed over New York City streets in a way I had never experienced before. What happens when America's most respected journalists, pundits and commentators are forced to stay up past their bedtimes and watch a Republican candidate win the 2016 presidential election?The last 24 hours have revealed exactly what happens -- professionalism and integrity get tossed to the curb, and the true colors of the media elite come shining through. That’s on my mind that, hey, if the polls are as off as they were in 2016 in those states, it’s going to look very different. I wish I had followed my own instincts, what I was seeing with my own eyes, a little more aggressively when I was out there. They are literally roped off in a separate newsroom. "You're not … At our network, we are simply not allowed to have contact with the decision desk during Election Night. Alec Baldwin’s famed for his impression of Donald Trump. … His brother was in there celebrating, wearing a MAGA hat. MSNBC host Steve Kornacki on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. But for the journalists at MSNBC who were out in the field or in the studio trying to process everything for the public in real time, much of what they heard and saw remains vivid. Alba: At the very end of the night, the boxes of confetti at the Javits Center that were going to be released were just sitting around. Nov. 9, 2016 “Nobody predicted this,” said Chris Matthews on MSNBC. All of a sudden we got a big batch, and they looked a lot like the polling had looked. Corinne Masiero protested pandemic closures during Friday’s ceremony. Anchored by Brian Williams, NBC won the primetime ratings race on Election Night 2012 with 12.12 million viewers with 5.77 million in the news demo of … Coverage and analysis of the 2016 presidential election. Alba: The Clinton campaign had turned the TV networks off and just put on the playlist. They wanted to be in the green room with the celebrities they had brought to the Javits Center. I felt a little bit like — obviously they’re my colleagues. NBC. We are working through some things.”, The Future Is Ours to See, Now That Kaley Cuoco Is Set to Play Doris Day. In terms of this election, I’m going into it with the knowledge of how everybody was in 2016, and how wrong they were on Election Night, and how sure everyone feels about Joe Biden in the polls right now, remembering that polling is an imperfect science. MSNBC - Election Coverage - Season 2016 MSNBC - ELECTION COVERAGE -- Election Night 2016 -- Pictured: (l-r) Brian Williams, Anchor, "The 11th Hour with Brian Williams" and Rachel Maddow, Host, "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 from New York -- (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/MSNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) Everybody was surprised to see the stage, which had been beautifully built by Greg Hale in the shape of the United States. It was extremely apparent it was dawning on them that the map was not going to go in the direction they thought it was. Lawrence and Rachel Maddow on historic election night results Though there was not much up-to-date polling (because Hillary was certain to win by a wide margin), Bernie won a huge upset in Minnesota. Lady Gaga is crying backstage, source reports, Alba: There was a guy who had been hired to do a live sketch or a painting of what everything looked like. "You're awake by the way," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow helpfully pointed out to viewers in an October clip shared widely on election night. ... MSNBC … Log in or link your magazine subscription. COVERAGE -- Election Night 2016 -- Pictured: Brian Williams, Anchor, "The 11th Hour with Brian Williams," Rachel Maddow, Host, "The Rachel Maddow Show," Chris Matthews, Host, "Hardball with Chris... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images For the 2016 election, composer Michael Karp revised his legendary NBC election theme that has been on the air since 2004. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. We were reaching out to everybody we knew collectively from being on the Clinton beat for a year and a half, and nobody was replying. 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On Election Night 2016, I was about 60 to 65 percent sure Hillary would win, and therefore emotionally preparing myself for all the hideous things that would come with such a thing — fascist Obamacare enshrined, further bake-the-cake mandates strangling my Christian faith, a more … I think at one point around 9:30 — and Fox News is on both the big screens — Chris Wallace says, “I think Donald Trump could win. IE 11 is not supported. Election Night 2016 : MSNBCW : November 8, 2016 8:00pm-8:31pm PST : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive. And then you started looking at the turnout and it’s like: This is a flood. You can’t hit the clubs with the late night host until we get our threat level lower. I had checked in with that person a couple of times during the night, because he was standing, overlooking all the supporters. Tur: Already at five o’ clock, you saw the knives coming out. Republican presidential elect Donald Trump gestures while speaking during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York on Nov. 9, 2016. We are about to see if there is indeed a sizable and hidden Trump vote in places where we’ve been led to believe Biden has a sizable and consistent lead. I said at some point that it didn’t feel like covering a winning campaign in the final weeks. 8 Nov 2017 6,422. I’m not trying to say anybody was not nice to me, but it was clear that, when I had this reporting to deliver, it was not terribly welcome news. Inside NBC News and MSNBC on Election Night 2016. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Didn’t Break Up, They Just Had a Bad Friday, “All the reports are inaccurate. I try to talk to voters wherever I go, but it’s really been more challenging than four years ago. In the next five minutes, I was looking at the numbers on the Gulf Coast and north of Tampa, and it was like, holy cow. The MSNBC election desk, from left, Brian Williams, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Steve Schmidt, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. 00:03. So unlike other victory parties, Donald Trump was charging for the booze. Shaq Brewster, an NBC News producer in 2016: I was in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Hamilton County Board of Elections. Find the latest presidential election news stories, photos and videos on NBCNews.com. We are their client in a one-way relationship. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. IE 11 is not supported. © 2021 Vox Media, LLC. ET, featuring Rachel Maddow and Brian Williams, along with … Okay, you’re expecting Trump to do decently here, but these are counties that Romney won by single digits and Trump’s going to win these counties by, like, 20. As Election Day 2020 approaches, flashbacks to the last presidential election are inevitable. Some of them had moved on to tears. neither of them has a yellow brick road you can see from space. He says, “I have to sober up because I think he might win.”. That’s when we really knew that they didn’t even know what to make of what was happening. The idea that he was going to keep on doing rallies after this, and I was going to live inside the press pen for the rest of my life, it was all washing over me. With a 7.0 household rating in the metered markets, NBC topped the Big 4 on Tuesday with its primetime coverage of the stunning conclusion of the race … Broadly speaking, they painted a picture of, it’s not going to be the world’s most impressive victory, but Hillary looks like she’s getting what she needs here. It was one of the oddities that often popped up when you spent time around Trump and his events. A lot happened on that day, the details of which may have been crowded out of many minds by, well, everything that has happened in this country since that day. The Place for Politics 2016: MSNBC Election Night Coverage News | TV Special 8 November 2016 Live coverage of US 2016 presidential race, including Trump upset victory. Who Should (and Will) Win at the 2021 Grammy Awards? Election Night 2016: MSNBC. Which polls?”, referring to an interview he had with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, when she was saying all the polls showed Donald Trump losing. Read headlines covering the presidential debates, polls, results, and more. We caught up with the comedian on Instagram Live today. Vitali: Someone said Virginia was too close to call. Williams: That’s when we all collectively realized we’d be covering a Trump inauguration in January. LIVE: Election night 2016. She was always more serious and reserved. I had gotten laughed at by Clinton’s staffers for saying that. My sources were already telling me Trump was going to be back on the rally circuit, doing a victory tour. Already a subscriber? One year into shutdown, voters are casting ballots for shows they can barely remember — with no awards ceremony in sight. Vitali: Around ten, a Republican staffer walks by me and he’s visibly drunk. Monica Alba, NBC News embed on the Clinton campaign in 2016: Election Day for us really began at 3:30 a.m. after a series of rallies Secretary Clinton had done the night prior. UPDATED : Donald Trump was the surprise winner of last night's Presidential election. When he walked inside, some kids were selling cookies as part of a fundraiser for the school. Williams: We are about to see if polling has become more accurate over the course of four years. Don’t let this hidden Netflix action gem slip through the cracks this weekend. Understandably, a lot of people would rather forget how those hours felt, but it’s useful to remember as we head into another anxiety-inducing election day.