Twitter users this week criticized ABC News debate judges Linsey Davis and David Muir for allegedly favoring Vice President Kamala Harris in the debates.
As of now, this was Harris and Trump’s first and only planned debate. The race between them is still very close. A lot more people on X said that the moderators were fact-checking and talking over Trump more so than Harris.
“Now it’s Harris, Linsey, and Muir vs Trump—just like we said it would be,” Brent Bozell, head of the Media Research Center, wrote on X.
According to Newsweek, Davis’s questioning of Trump’s claim that some Democrats back killing babies after birth was the first fact-check of the discussion.
In a 2019 video, Trump was talking about Ralph Northam, who used to be governor of Virginia. In it, Northam said that if a woman didn’t want to give her baby medical care after birth, the baby would be “kept comfy.” Davis said, “It is against the law in every state in this country to kill a baby after it is born.”
On SiriusXM, Megyn Kelly called the debate between Davis and Muir “a shameful failure” and said it was the most “biased” and “unfair” ever.
Trump also talked about claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, which led Muir to check the facts.
“Just to be clear,” Muir said, “you bring up Springfield, Ohio. ABC News did talk to the city manager there. He informed us that they had not received any reliable reports of immigrants hurting or abusing pets or specific claims of such harm.”
Trump also said that crime has gone up while Harris has been vice president, but Muir checked the facts. The presenter used FBI numbers to show that crime has gone down, and Trump said that the numbers are fake.
ABC's @DavidMuir tries to debate Trump for calling out migrant crime in the US.
Donald Trump was not having it. pic.twitter.com/dl2sPimjv4
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 11, 2024
Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X, “It’s weird that the hack editors at @abcnews are only ‘Fact-checking’ Trump and letting Kamala lie all the time.” “Fake News is against the people!”
Harris said that Trump called people in Charlottesville in 2017 “fine people,” which was not true, but the reporters did not correct the vice president. She also said that Trump would sign a law banning abortion across the country, even though the former president had said many times that he wouldn’t. Neither of the reporters checked the vice president’s claims.
