NBC's reporting of election results during the primary showed vote counts going up and down.
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Louder with CrowderAug 19, 2026
The claim that NBC's primary reporting showed vote counts going up and down is an extraction that departs from the passage, which says the speaker's vote counts went up all night and attributes the decline-and-rise pattern to the claimant's own allegation about NBC rather than making a checkable statement about NBC's reporting; the sources (NBC's methodology pages and a 2020.
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… Yeah, that like seven or 8 million views on this one post saying, Hey, they're stealing votes in real time. Just don't fall for stuff like that. I don't think anybody should look at that and go, Oh, yeah, that's exactly what's happening. It's just Nbc's reporting not being great. I would ask two of those people, Hey, you know how we covered this week? We said, Hey, obviously, we're well past three months with Iran, and as I told you, if it goes long, it's going to be unpopular and it's going to be seen as a misstep, and rightfully …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The post says the speaker's own candidate's vote counts went 'up all night, not going up and going back down' on Decision Desk HQ and official feeds, and that NBC's reporting being poor is the speaker's opinion rather than a documented finding about specific counts.
Context. NBC News states its Decision Desk relies on AP-provided data and only projects races when certain, but no source describes NBC's own primary-night vote totals rising and falling.[2]
Context. A 2020 Boston Globe piece describes general election-night 'whipsaw' shifts in counts across TV networks, but it concerns 2020 and does not address NBC's 2026 primary reporting.[3]
Context. Reuters explains that networks rely on the AP or Decision Desk HQ for vote counts, which is consistent with the post's point that NBC does not produce the official data, but does not address whether NBC's displayed counts fluctuated.[1]
Sources
3 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Explainer: How US news organizations will make midterm race callsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2National Elections 2026 Live Results and Map: Delaware Primariesnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3Is election night broken? TV news stuck to old routines amid voting upheaval -- and confusion followed.bostonglobe.com · not rated · cited for: context
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