Tuesday night’s presidential debate was a 3-on-1 ambush. Donald Trump faced not only Kamala Harris but also ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.
The Los Angeles Times asked Davis about the debate this week, to which she admitted that there was a plan coming in to “fact-check” Trump. Davis says the network made the decision because CNN let Trump’s statements “hang” during the June debate against Joe Biden.
“Davis, wearing pink glasses while speaking to The Times over breakfast at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, said the decision to attempt to correct the candidates was in response to the June 27 CNN debate between Trump and President Biden, whose poor performance led to his exit from the race,” the Times reported.
“People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis told the outlet on Wednesday morning.
Fine. But what David did not explain was the decision to only fact-check Trump.
The moderators fact-checked Trump five times regarding abortion, crime, and Haitian immigrants. Muir and Davis didn’t fact-check Harris even once, despite her many, many lies on stage. […]
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