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United States News Title: 'Wolf Blitzer is on suicide watch!': Twitter mocks 'desperate' host for stunned reaction to Trump's success while key CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper go MISSING 'Wolf Blitzer is on suicide watch!': Twitter mocks 'desperate' host for stunned reaction to Trump's success while key CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper go MISSING By Dailymail.com Reporter Wolf Blitzer is being criticized by many on Twitter for his refusal to accept the fact that Donald Trump had won the presidency while hosting CNN's election coverage. One Twitter used noted that Blitzer was trying to 'desperately resuscitate the Clinton corpse' in response to the fact that he was calling states for Trump long after other networks and major media outlets. CNN was also also the final network to report that Trump had won the race, waiting until 2:48am, just after he took the stage to make his victory speech in New York. Just minutes prior, Blitzer was visibly stunned when co-host Dana Bash informed him that Clinton had conceded to Trump in a phone call. 'If Hillary Clinton has conceded, that is dramatic,' said Blitzer, live on air. 'That is a dramatic development, Dana, and to hear the words president elect, we haven’t yet projected that - but you’re saying Clinton made a formal call to Donald Trump to concede?' Bash then again confirmed that Clinton had conceded, but still CNN did not call the election for Trump. One by one, key battleground states like Florida, North Carolina and Ohio went to Trump throughout the night,but Blitzer constantly reported on the most minimal of results from the swing states that were crucial to both candidates. CALLING THE ELECTION Associated Press: 2:31am Fox News: 2:40am The New York Times: 2:41am CLINTON CONCEDES: 2:43 am Reuters: 2:43am PENCE SPEAKS AT RALLY: 2:44am The Washington Post: 2:44am NBC News: 2:44am ABC News: 2:45am CBS News: 2:45am TRUMP SPEAKS AT RALLY: 2:47am CNN: 2:48am Several Twitter users said Blitzer was going to 'need post election therapy sessions, along with many other people probably'. Some said that his election coverage showed that he was in 'denial' about Trump's success as he picked up key wins across the nation. At one point in the evening, CNN's Brianna Keilar spoke about how difficult the night had been for Clinton supporters, saying that some were 'crying' after hearing the results at her rally. 'They were coming to this event for what they thought would even be an early night watching Hillary Clinton being elected as the first woman president, and now they are confronting the reality that they could be walking out of here not knowing, or even expecting that Donald Trump will be president,' said Keilar. Blitzer responded by saying: 'I can certainly understand their sadness.' Other Twitter users said Blitzer was calling it a 'cliffhanger race hours after it was over as a contest'. Blitzer was also mocked on social media for repeatedly taking about the network's 'magic wall' throughout the night, where the results where being shown to viewers. 'Let's go over to John King over at the "magic wall,"' said Blitzer every few minutes. King then became a trending topic during the election coverage because as soon as Blitzer would throw to his he would cut him off and start talking again. This while Anderson Cooper, one of CNN's most prominent personalities and the moderator of the second debate remained largely unseen, leaving Blitzer, Bash and Jake Taper to do most of the coverage. And despite his long night, Blitzer was back on the air at 10am on Wednesday. Meanwhile, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was visibly upset on election night while talking to her viewers. At one point she interrupted her election coverage to say: 'You're awake by the way. You're not having a terrible, terrible dream. 'Also, you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell.' Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
#1. To: nolu chan, CZ82, civilwarbuff (#0)
CNN: 2:48am Can't blame Wolfie and CNN. They were waiting for permission from Donna Brasile to call the election for Trump.
Supposedly the Canadian Immigration website crashed early this morning wonder if those 2 idiots were part of the cause? The thing of it is Canada probably wouldn't want them anyway.
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