Fox News calling Arizona at a time that now seems like it was too early (but that also seems like the call should hold) has all the makings of a future episode of some "TURNING POINTS IN POLITICS!!!" podcast.
The impression that Biden had won Arizona drastically narrowed Trump's path to victory, which meant the relentless focus on Michigan/Pennsylvania/Wisconsin paused just long enough to let the mail-in vote start rolling in there largely unchallenged.
It's not hard to imagine a world where Trump, leading in MI/PA/WI due to the strange method of the count there, with AZ still "too close to call," declares victory more forcefully, earlier in the evening, muddying the narrative and making a stronger push to freeze the count.
Instead, his favorite TV network declares Biden has won a state that we still don't know he won, probably too early, possibly based on faulty data, and it might have gotten in the way of his attempts to blatantly fuck with democracy.

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