As RedState has reported, the moderators for the ABC News presidential debate have faced intense and justified criticism over their handling of the event, with conservatives and even some independent observers pointing out how it quickly became a three-on-one against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The primary issues revolve around the one-sided fact-checking, the fact that some of the ones they did of Trump were false, they changed the rules on muting mics about half an hour before the debate (which had previously been a demand of the Harris campaign), and that at times they invited Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris to join in on the pile-on in what looked like a coordinated effort.
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One of the co-moderators, Linsey Davis, took heat from Republicans for her false fact-check of Trump’s statements on the abortion issue. Instead of questioning her on that, though, the LA Times ran a puff piece on Davis, where they gushed over her performance and claimed “Colleagues see her as old school in her commitment to fairness and balance.”
But it was a statement Davis herself made during the interview that has raised eyebrows. In it, she seemingly admitted the reason why they heavily fact-checked Trump was because they wanted it to be different than the CNN debate, where Trump’s performance and Biden’s disastrous appearance led to the latter being forced out of the presidential race nearly a month later, where he was then replaced by his VP:
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.
“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 said.
Um, that sounds an awful lot like saying the quiet part out loud, that she did not want the same thing happening to Kamala Harris that happened to Joe Biden:
I said the reason for how the moderators behaved in the ABC debate was simply because they were not going to let happen to Kamala Harris, what happened to Joe Biden and here she is admitting ithttps://t.co/8uwshNkQl7 pic.twitter.com/x48TIQrz18
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 12, 2024
Trump was right in announcing earlier there would be no more presidential debates after this one. More often than not they are biased and rigged against the Republican candidate, which is exactly how the Tuesday debate played out.
That Davis has made this admission will prompt no outcry from the press, no calls for “reform” among the elite pundit class in how debates are planned and managed, and no soul-searching from the higher-ups at ABC News/Disney, one of which just so happens to be close friends with Harris, even introducing her to the man who would become her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.
Gee, imagine that.
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