ABC News debate moderator Linsey Davis made a stunning admission about their attempts to ‘fact check’ Donald Trump during his debate with Kamala Harris.
Republicans were furious at ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for refusing to fact check Harris on her lies about Trump’s views on IVF.
In a new interview, Davis says that it was a conscious decision to do the fact checks after seeing how Trump and Joe Biden performed in the CNN debate in June.
‘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.
Davis even anticipated Trump’s comments on abortion and IVF and said it ‘was an obvious thing to get on the record’.
ABC News debate moderator Linsey Davis made a stunning admission about their attempts to ‘fact check’ Donald Trump during his debate with Kamala Harris
Republicans were furious at ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for refusing to fact check Kamala Harris on her lies about Donald Trump ‘s views on IVF
She then admitted that they tried but failed to get the candidates on the record every time they claim they told a lie.
The anchor, who hosts a show on ABC News’ streaming outlet, admitted social media makes her aware of how tough it is as a black woman covering the first black woman to run as a major presidential candidate to stay unbiased.
‘There is a stereotype that I am acutely aware of that I can’t be unbiased covering this moment,’ she told the LA Times. ‘And the anonymous Instagram people serve as reminders every day.’
Muir and Davis repeatedly attempted to fact check Trump during the debate on issues such as the Capitol riot and a claim about migrant crime.
However, Harris incorrectly stated that Trump was against in vitro fertilization during the debate.
The former president stated that he has spoken out in favor of IVF when it has faced bans at the state level.
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer wrote on social media: ‘ABC is making a huge mistake trying to fact check this live. They’re only proving how biased they are. Harris fabricated an attack on Trump over IVF. ABC sat there and said nothing’.
A Trump campaign account pointed out what the debate moderators wouldn’t: that Harris wasn’t telling the truth.
Davis even anticipated Trump’s comments on abortion and IVF and said it ‘was an obvious thing to get on the record’
The anchor, who hosts a show on ABC News’ streaming outlet, admitted social media makes her aware of how tough it is as a black woman covering the first black woman to run as a major presidential candidate to stay unbiased
‘Kamala is LYING again. President Trump has said he wants to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, including supporting IVF in every state’, they wrote.
Linsey Davis claimed that Trump was lying when he said that states are allowing for post-birth executions.
Muir said Trump claimed falsely that immigrants were eating pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio.
Harris was not fact checked by either during the debate.
Trump frustrated social conservatives by adopting a more progressive line on IVF, or in vitro fertilization.
He declared that he would make the expensive procedure free for Americans.
The former president has further distanced himself from the issue by reportedly ordering the party to tone down abortion language at the Republican National Convention.
Earlier this spring, Trump told his advisors that he was leaning toward endorsing a 16-week national abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.
Muir and Davis repeatedly attempted to fact check Trump during the debate on issues such as the Capitol riot and a claim about migrant crime
However, he reportedly reversed course after looking over some polling and started saying that abortion was something that should be decided at the state level.
Also, the former president has repeatedly voiced his objection when state’s have ruled too harshly on the abortion question.
He has denounced Florida’s 6-week ban, calling it a ‘terrible mistake,’ and during an interview with NBC on Thursday. He added that women in Florida needed more time in order to determine whether or not they wanted an abortion.
Trump signaled that he could vote to end Florida’s six-week abortion ban when it comes up in a referendum later this year, as he continues his delicate dance around a key election issue.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com he previewed an upcoming announcement on his voting stance by saying that he did not think six weeks was enough time.
But he avoided committing to using the presidential veto if a nationwide federal ban arrived on his desk as president even though his running mate said he would.
In office, Trump reveled in being the most pro-life president in history, taking credit for ending federal protections for abortion by installing the conservative justices on the Supreme Court who overturned Roe v Wade.
This time he is trying to keep both sides happy on one of the most divisive issues in the election by saying it is up to states to decide their own laws.
The former president has further distanced himself from the issue by reportedly ordering the party to tone down abortion language at the Republican National Convention
This prompted outcry from some conservatives, including those at the National Review, where they published an article entitled ‘Trump Stabs Florida Pro-lifers in the Front.’
In an effort to clean up the situation, Leavitt said that the former president ‘simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short.’
Trump revealed that he would vote no on the measure that would preserve the six-week ban in Florida.
As the final weeks of the presidential campaign grind on and Trump tries to regain some of the losses he has incurred since Harris took over for President Joe Biden, he will face the immense challenge of winning over new, more liberal, voters while placating his base.
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