Even ‘Succession’ Political Consultants Thought That Election Episode Was ‘Chilling’ and ‘Eerily Prescient’ (Video)
thewrap.comtitled “America Decides,” sees the Roy siblings squabble with one another and put their thumb on the scale in ATN’s first election night coverage since the shocking death of their father, Logan (Brian Cox).
The fictional network ends up calling the state of Wisconsin before all the votes can be counted in favor of Jeryd Mencken and later calls the entire election for the far-right presidential candidate.In an interview segment reflecting on the episode Monday night, CNN’s Jake Tapper drew parallels between the show, the behind-the-scenes communications of Fox News that emerged in its legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems and the conservative channel’s now-infamous call that Joe Biden was projected to win Arizona in the 2020 election. “Is it art imitating life or life imitating art?
It was a little bit chilling about how eerily similar the whole thing was,” Ben Ginsberg, former Bush 2000/2004 and Romney 2008/2012 attorney said. “I mean the personalities involved, the pressures on a news organization, where I came from, which was campaigns and how they would react in the moment and what they might be able to depend on from a news organization.
It was really quite something.” Eric Schultz, a former deputy press secretary for the Obama Administration, added that the “Succession” writers are not only brilliant, creative and funny, but “eerily prescient.”“We started working on the show last spring and obviously the latest revelations about Fox and Dominion came out much more recently.
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