Fox couldn’t choose someone more who doesn’t necessarily believe the POLLS?
10 Oct: Fox News: Arnon Mishkin: Trump reelection in trouble, polling indicates — race is referendum on him
Will he climb out of a hole when election results are in — or wind up in the ditch?
OPINION By Arnon Mishkin, director of the Fox News decision desk
photo caption: Why improving economy isn’t boosting Trump in election polling
Pollster Frank Luntz analyzes which issues matter most to voters on ‘Your World’
The latest Fox News poll suggests that Trump is 10 points behind former Vice President Joe Biden, with Biden at 53% and Trump at 43% among likely voters...
And if you look at the statewide public polling, there’s evidence that Trump is not just in trouble nationally. He’s not doing as well in some of the “safe Republican” states where no one really thinks he’s likely to lose...
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/polling-trump-election-arnon-mishkin
when he - and Fox - get high praise from a “senior” contributor at another FakeNewsMSM outlet, you do need to wonder!
21 Oct: Forbes: Why Fox News May Have The Edge In Calling The 2020 Presidential Race
by Mark Joyella, Senior Contributor
But in 2017, Fox News decided to break from the exit polling consortium, convinced there was a better way to determine what’s motivating voters in the days leading up to Election Day. The result, in partnership with the ***Associated Press, is the Fox News Voter Analysis, which uses one methodology for all voters—early voters, voters who vote by mail, and Election Day voters. The system, which was tested in state races in 2017 and 2018, involves interviews with nearly 100,000 voters in the final days before Election Day. “One of the great things about having such an enormous sample size,” Mishkin says, “is that you can really drill down into the data.”...
“We’re not going to characterize the outcome in a state until all the polls in that state are closed.” But having a good idea of what the early vote looks like will help Fox News understand how returns from voting on Election Day will impact the final result. “Where we know the mail-in vote differs from the day-of vote, we will be sharing that.”...
I asked him if he has a gut feeling about how the race will go, and he said he did. But he’s not saying—and he’s not even sure he can trust his gut, as he really prefers to look at more reliable measures, like votes and polling data...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2020/10/21/why-fox-news-may-have-the-edge-in-calling-the-2020-presidential-race/