The ABC Moderators at the presidential debate fact-checked, asked stunning follow-ups, and otherwise held the debaters’ feet to the fire – but ONLY if your name was Donald Trump. Otherwise, you could pretty much rely on them to let you say whatever you wanted and provide even cover for you!
Did Harris “win” the debate? It’s hard to say that she didn’t.
However, her “victory” was not without help. She had an obvious assist from the biased ABC moderators. They were on her side and let her get away too many times without responding to their questions.
She consistently gave speeches instead of answers, yet the moderators didn’t press her for a clear response to their questions as they did with the former president.
“So when Trump doesn’t directly answer the question, ABC points it out. Kamala will NOT directly answer a single question, and they let her off the hook,” Outkick host Tomi Lahren pointed out.
Asked, for example, how much responsibility she had for the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, she never answered except to say that she supported President Biden’s decision.
She then turned to the Democratic talking point that Trump negotiated the original terms with the Taliban, and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis let it pass. There was no mention of the 13 dead American service members.
When it came to Trump’s answers, several times, the moderators insisted he was wrong and offered what can only be called corrections. They were way out of line and once again proved that mainstream media outlets simply cannot be trusted to play fair.
“The ABC moderators are fact checking- incorrectly!- and in such a shockingly obviously one-sided way, that Trump enduring the ambush as well as he has is a win,” conservative radio host Buck Sexton reacted. “This debate has been a total sham, questions are all attacks on Trump, it’s 3 on 1. Outrageous.”
Some critics specifically called out Muir for his multiple spats with Trump.
“David Muir is criticizing and attacking Trump more than Kamala is,” journalist Glenn Greenwald said. “Kamala can relax because the ABC ‘moderators’ are handling the debate for her.”
Will There Be a Second Debate?
Will we ever see these two face off against each other once again? That remains to be seen.
The Harris campaign called for a second presidential debate almost immediately after Tuesday night’s wrapped up. As to the former President. He initially said during a live post-debate interview on Fox News that he’d “have to think about it” and that Harris wanted a second debate “because she lost,” but when host Sean Hannity pushed him on it, Trump said, “Maybe if it was on a fair network.”
Hannity then suggested he could moderate a second debate, which he suggested could take place in October, “like I did” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“I think it would be fair. You would be fair, actually, you want to know the truth,” Trump said.