Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one of several pundits and political leaders who expressed his disgust with ABC News debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, who frequently interrupted former President Trump with incorrect “fact checks” while allowing Vice President Harris to get away with blatant lies.
Throughout the debate, Muir and Davis issued “fact checks” of former President Donald Trump’s answers. On more than one occasion, the moderators engaged in interventions that were verifiably false.
Incorrect fact checks include a claim that full-term abortion is not permitted in any state, ignoring an explicit endorsement of the practice from former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, and a claim that there is “no evidence” of pets and local wildlife being killed by illegal aliens in a small Ohio town, which ignored police reports and citizen testimony.
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Harris, on the other hand, was allowed to get away with several lies, including the false claim that police officers were killed on January 6, the thoroughly debunked “very fine people” hoax, and several false statements about her past positions.
Shortly after the debate, former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was one of many political leaders who found Muir and Davis to be clearly biased.
“Unfortunately, we had moderators who were clearly biased, who were constantly fact-checking Donald Trump. But none of these kind of whoppers that the vice president was saying, and none of her failure to really explain that, answer that first question, that very, very critical first question,” Kennedy told Newsmax.
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“They simply sat there on the sidelines and allowed that to pass.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also expressed his disgust with the ABC moderators, referring to the two-hour event as a “three-on-one debate.”
“It was a three-on-one debate. It was disappointing that she didn’t have her feet held to the fire by the moderators. They went out of their way to try to do that to Donald Trump,” DeSantis told Fox News.
“But I think people that take away from this debate, even with all that, Donald Trump is the candidate that’s going to change things. Kamala Harris is the candidate that, as President Trump said in his closing statement, she’s been there three and a half years. Why hasn’t she fixed any of these problems during that time? She does not have an answer to that question.”
Former President Trump expressed confidence in the debate results despite pro-Harris interference from the moderators in a Truth Social post. “I thought that was my best Debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE!” he wrote.
I thought that was my best Debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE!
Donald Trump Truth Social 10:53 PM EST 09/10/24 @realDonaldTrump
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 11, 2024
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