Several major conservative American outlets affiliated with media mogul Robert Murdock are distancing themselves from President Donald Trump for the first time since 2016 in what could mark a turning point

For the first time, Trump supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, chanted, "Fox News is bad!", After this channel had been considered a steadfast ally for five years.

The reason is the channel's announcement that Democratic candidate Joe Biden won in Arizona on Tuesday evening. Jared Kushner, Trump's advisor and son-in-law, called Murdock to push the channel back, to no avail, while other media outlets declined to announce a winner pending the end of the vote count in this key state.

Since that night, Fox News has dealt with extreme caution with accusations made by the camp of the outgoing president and Trump himself of massive electoral fraud.

"We haven't seen any evidence," Brett Bayer, a prominent political journalist for the channel, said Friday. "They didn't show us anything."

The "Daily Beast" site indicates that Murdock, known for his conservative views, accepted the idea of ​​Joe Biden winning for months.

While the presidential vote counting dragged on delaying the announcement of the winner, the New York Post, another organization set up by Murdock, did not report any of the Trump camp's assumptions that election fraud was taking place.

Just a few days ago, the newspaper was reporting accusations - issued by close associates of Donald Trump - against Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son.

On Friday, two of the opinion pages acknowledged that Donald Trump would likely be defeated, a scenario the outgoing president stubbornly rejects.

Rees Beck, a professor at the City University of New York, said Murdock "sometimes predicts the direction of political winds."

He made it clear that Joe Biden is one of the moderate Democrats who could accept their presence. He added, "Biden does not scare the American business community very much."

Source: AFP

By:Nadeemy Haded