ABC News Debate Moderator Makes Wild Admission About Fact-Checking Trump, Says CNN Let His Comments “Just Hang”
In what was an absolutely wild admission to the Los Angeles Times about her behavior during the September 10 presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris that was hosted by ABC News, ABC News anchor Linsey Davis admitted that her fact-checking of Trump was influenced by how the CNN debate between Trump and Biden went.
As background, both Davis and her co-moderator, ABC News personality David Muir, were hammered in the aftermath of the debate over what critics contended was their bias in seemingly only fact-checking former President Donald Trump and letting Vice President Harris get away with spreading obviously false claims, such as the “fine people” hoax.
Despite that criticism, Davis said during an interview with the Los Angeles Times that she wanted to use her position as a debate moderator to address concerns that the former president’s statements could be allowed to “hang” in the air unchallenged by the moderators, as she claimed happened when he debated Biden on CNN in June in what even most critics of CNN contended was a relatively fair debate.The Times, describing Davis and what she said, wrote:
“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.“
According to the Los Angeles Times, Davis said, on Wednesday, the 11th of September, that people had been concerned about Trump’s statements not being disputed during the CNN debate. She said, it reported, “People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators.”
