The Hill: Tucker Carlson issues on-air apology over Georgia voter claims
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday apologized to viewers after a local Georgia news outlet pointed out that he had made a false claim about a dead individual illegally voting in the state.
On a Thursday evening segment of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host claimed that someone had cast a ballot on behalf of James Blalock of Covington, Ga., who passed away in 2006.
Blalock, a World War II veteran, had been used by the Trump campaign this week as an example of dead individuals who illegally voted in Georgia, which news outlets officially called for President-elect Joe BidenFriday.
"No one quite embodies that story like James Blalock of Covington, Georgia. Mr. Blalock was a mailman for 33 years until he passed away in 2006," Carlson said in his Thursday broadcast. "Fourteen years later, according to state records he was still mailing things. James Blalock cast a ballot in last week's election."
However, Newton County officials said in a statement Thursday that Blalock did not vote, and the record found by the Trump campaign referred to a vote cast by Blalock’s widow, registered under his name as "Mrs. James E. Blalock, Jr."
“Her voter registration was signed as Mrs. James E. Blalock, Jr. and that is exactly how she signed her name when she voted in the Nov. 3 general election,” read the statement shared on Facebook.
During his show Friday, Carlson apologized to viewers and issued a correction.
"We've got some good news tonight, and an apology," he said. "One of the people who voted in last week's election isn't dead. James Blalock is still dead, we told you about him, but it was his wife who voted. She voted as Mrs. James Blalock. It's old-fashioned and we missed it."
Carlson then added that "a whole bunch of dead people did vote" but said that "James Blalock was not among them."
"It was Mrs. James Blalock. So apologies for that, and of course we're always going to correct when we're wrong. And we were," he said.
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