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TexasTowelie

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Tue Dec 15, 2020, 03:26 AM Dec 2020

Newsmax and One America grapple uneasily with Biden's electoral college victory

For the past six weeks, two upstart cable news channels - Newsmax and One America News - have tried to outflank Fox News from the right by embracing President Donald Trump's strategy of election denialism.

But on Monday, as the electoral college sealed Democrat Joe Biden's victory, their paths seemed to diverge slightly.

John Bachman, who anchors an afternoon show on Newsmax, the larger of the two channels, referred to Biden as the president-elect and noted that Trump's legal challenges of the election results have failed at almost every step.

"What I'm trying to do is manage everyone's expectations," Bachman told viewers. "These judges don't seem to be taking up these cases. This is the reality. This is the motion set in place."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Newsmax-and-One-America-grapple-uneasily-with-15801545.php

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Newsmax and One America grapple uneasily with Biden's electoral college victory (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
This is NO TIME to start doing news, Bachman! dchill Dec 2020 #1
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