The Setup: PBS Normalizes Overnight Reversals, NPR Caught Its Own Side Rigging the Chatbots

The set up:

PBS: If you go to bed on election night and don’t know who won a midterm congressional race, that’s normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that’s normal, too

If you go to bed on election night and don’t know who won a midterm congressional race, that’s normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that’s normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) https://t.co/qXoZPnofJf

— PBS News (@NewsHour) October 31, 2026

You don’t have to take a conservative’s word for it — NPR did the digging, and what it found is