North Carolina has been fiercely targeted by the Obama campaign, which has flooded the state with money and volunteers.ĭemocratic success here could suggest Senator Obama is on a roll but a McCain triumph will signal late movement towards the Republican. In 2004, the result was not called for several hours. Polls close in the key battleground state of Ohio - it is finely balanced and we might have a long wait before we know which way it has gone. Both have gone Republican since 1964, so if either of them go for Barack Obama, it could spell a miserable night for John McCain.īut if Senator McCain secures both, he is still in with a chance.Ġ030 GMT (1930 EST): Get set for drama here.
It's too anti-Trump", she said it was an example of censoring journalism in order to avoid an imagined backlash and falling into the trap of false equivalence in a bid to be impartial.In some cases, projected results will emerge immediately after voting ends but in other cases, depending on how tight the race is, they may not emerge for several hours (or in the case of 2000, several weeks).Ģ300 GMT (1800 EST): The first polls close, but election night really gets going in another hour.Ģ400 GMT (1900 EST): Polls close in Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont but the ones to watch are Indiana and Virginia. She also made reference to her own 2020 Newsnight interview with Hollywood star Robert De Niro in which the actor accused Mr Trump of "not caring how many die" during the pandemic.Īdmitting she told her editor at the time, "we can't possibly put this out. Maitlis began her speech talking about Donald Trump's election victory in 2016 and ended by talking about him "unilaterally declared himself the winner of an election he lost" in 2020. She also touched on fake news and the power of social media, calling it "exceptionally favourable to the language of populism because it benefits simplistic, emotional messages that suit the elevation of grievance". We should ask why they're so afraid of scrutiny." This is often a precursor to the rejection of legitimate checks and balances. "When we hear Donald Trump or Zac Goldsmith or Nadine Dorries or Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about 'a witch-hunt', or Boris Johnson going the way of 'Deep State' chat, our senses should be primed. Image: Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Washington in January 2021 Critically, it's lose - lose for the audience. If it suits those in power to shut us up - or down - they can. That can be exploited by those crying 'bias'. "We - journalists, management teams, organisations - are primed to back down, even apologise, to prove how journalistically fair we are being. Urging journalists to catch up with the altered political landscape, Maitlis told the festival audience: "We're becoming anaesthetised to the rising temperature in which facts are getting lost, constitutional norms trashed, claims frequently unchallenged. She called on journalists to challenge those in power, asking why many are "so afraid of scrutiny", and namechecking politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former US president Donald Trump and culture minister Nadine Dorries.
Maitlis - who grabbed headlines around the world with her exclusive Prince Andrew interview in 2019, and has interviewed prime ministers, presidents and policymakers during her long career - also said being a journalist is "getting harder". Mr Sharp, who is a former banker and prominent Tory party donor, was interviewed by actor David Harewood. Image: David Harewood interviews BBC chairman Richard Sharp.
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