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Hoo, boy. ABC is taking a beating for how they handled it. And if this is true, look out:
X (Twitter): Leading Report on X: "BREAKING: ABC whistleblower allegedly will release an affidavit claiming the Harris campaign was given sample questions that were “essentiBREAKING: ABC whistleblower allegedly will release an affidavit claiming the Harris campaign was given sample questions that were “essentially the same questions that were given during the debate,” as well as assurances that Trump would be “fact-checked” and she would not.Even former Clinton operative Mark Penn is calling for an impartial investigation of ABC News for improper behavior:
justthenews.com - Mark penn calls abc news launch internal probe moderators fact checkingMark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Thursday for ABC to launch a formal internal investigation into its news division's planning and execution of this week's presidential debate to determine if there was some effort at "rigging the outcome of this debate."and
"I don't know what they told the Harris campaign. I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate. I think the situation demands nothing less than that," he added.The moderators being not the brightest, have been giving interviews...and what they're saying is concerning:
latimes.com - Linsey davis abc news harris trump debateDavis, 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.
Muir and Davis divided up the topics to study, and Davis fully anticipated that Trump’s erroneous abortion claim would come up when she questioned him on the issue.
“That was an obvious thing to get on the record,” Davis said.Here are the problems.
This is ABC deciding they needed to make the debate 3 on 1
because they didn't want to let what happened to Biden happen to Harris. She admits it right there.
And on abortion? ABC is flat out wrong. Minnesota has a number of kids who survive abortions die right there on the table. Trump was right.
