The early call infuriated many supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who finished a distant second.
WASHINGTON – The phrase"with 0%" was trending on Twitter Saturday, after multiple media outlets declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the
"Media waited for hours – and way after a meaningful amount of Nevada results had come in – before calling it for Bernie,"journalist Jordan Uhl. They then denigrated him with vicious anti-Semitic smears. Tonight, with 0% in, media not only calls it for Biden but gleefully declare him the front-runner."
News outlets made the call based on exit polls that showed Biden with an insurmountable lead. While such polls do have a high margin of error, the difference between Biden and Sanders' was so dramatic that news organizations felt comfortable calling the race early based on those results.In the 2016 presidential election, exit polls appeared to indicate some battleground states were breaking for Hillary Clinton but they ended up being won by Donald Trump.
And in the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary, exit polls indicated Barack Obama was going to beat Clinton, who went on to win the state.
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