PBS brought its familiar News Hour crew to its Election Night 2024 coverage, anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. Laura Barron-Lopez reported from Howard University in D.C, Harris’s “victory party” locale, while William Brangham reported from Trump’s actual victory party in West Palm Beach.
The anchors checked in with the on-scene reporters roughly every hour, and while the mood remained optimistic through the night at Trump headquarters, one could see the glumness descending in stages at Harris HQ — and perhaps in Barron-Lopez herself (who had a coughing fit at one point) — as the confident predictions she passed along from the Harris campaign fell by the wayside and Harris’s victory lane narrowed, hour by hour.
Read on, as the air gradually leaking from the Harris presidency trial balloon as the hours on Election Night passed.
6:09 p.m.
