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Monday, November 25, 2024

Trump-Harris presidential debate: Was ABC News biased toward the vice president? - Firstpost

The consensus on this week’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was that the vice president handily won. But many right-wing commentators and politicians including Trump himself are now accusing ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis of being in the tank for Harris and against Trump. But did that really happen?

Kamala Harris cleaned Donald Trump’s clock.

That was pretty much the consensus on their presidential debate this week – even on the right-wing channel Fox News and among some of the former president’s most ardent defenders including Senator Lindsey Graham and Republican strategist Erik Erikson.

Trump, though, immediately afterwards in the ‘spin room’ with the press, insisted he had his ‘best debate ever.’

He also claimed to have seen some polls showing he had easily defeated Harris, though he did not answer the press’ questions about which specific polls he was citing.

Trump, confusingly, also called the debate ‘rigged,’ said the two debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis ganged up on him alongside Harris and also demanded that ABC lose its broadcasting license – a strange stance to take for someone who claims he won the debate.

“It was a rigged deal, as I assumed it would be. Because when you looked at the fact that they were correcting everything and not correcting with her, and we knew it when it was 100 percent good coverage for her over the last month or last year, I looked at it and only bad coverage of me,” Trump said.

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