Is ABC News guilty of rigging the Trump vs. Harris debate by fact-checking Trump and not fact-checking Harris or was the debate conducted fairly?

[Kelley1]

https://www.wric.com/news/politics/real-time-fact-checking-presidential-debate/

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According to one source (see link), former Clinton advisor Mark Penn called for an investigation into ABC News for rigging the presidential debate against Trump.

See the following for comments and video:
www.thegatewaypundit.com/.../

I leave it to GAG readers to determine if the source, including the comments and video, is credible.

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The drunk off the street would have had better sense than Trump. Trump was foolish enough to agree to a debate and allow Harris to choose a biased network and biased moderators who aided her at every step. Therefore, of course, it was a rigged debate but Trump has no one except himself for agreeing to the debate. Trump should never allowed Harris to choose both the Network and the moderators.

[blueonblack22]

That was the most blatantly disgustingly moderated debated in American history.

With that said Trump did drop the ball. He was getting pissed off (for understandable reasons) but still he let his ego take over at a very crucial moment in the campaign. He let Harris get under his skin over fickle and bs issues (e. g. people getting “bored” at his rallies).

That debate left a very bad impression considering how many low information voters watched it. So many people vote on emotions and optics (which is scary but it’s true) and are so ignorant on what matters: POLICY. Especially when it comes to Trump.

He needs to tell his own ego to STFU and accept another debate (not with f’ing ABC obviously), get back in there and do it NOW. Not only his presidency on the line but his own f’ing personal freedom is on the line. He’s needs to be reverse this bs immediately.

But if Trump decides to self-sabotage himself again then I don’t know wtf to say. But who in their right f’ing mind would trust Harris to handle hyperinflation, the border crisis and two raging wars abroad considering she is the sitting f’ing VP who presided over this horrible policy to begin with?

But again so many people are brainwashed with TDS, abortion (Trump would never endorse a nationwide ban) and all the media manufactured bs about the “joy” of the minority female being president they are willing to self-destruct their own livelihoods.

[Avicenna]

Even the moderators lied or got some their fact checks wrong. Anyone who says Kamala didn’t deliberately lie is as much of a liar as her.

[Avicenna]

But why would you think Democrats wouldn’t rig a debate, especially with one of Kamala’s good friends being a senior executive at ABC, part of the Democrats’ propaganda arm?

[Kelley1]

That is true. The debate moderator, Linsey Davis, was also Kamala Harris’s sorority sister. That was never disclosed by the network.

[MisterWack]

ABC News didn’t rig the debate. It happens that Trump was yelling, sweating, and being unhinged while answering questions. They should’ve fact checked the ‘worst job record unemployment since the Great Depression’ remark of Kamala Harris though that is the only one I found. However it is worth noting they probably didn’t fact check that since the unemployment rate / job reports were smaller than after he was voted out of office I don't know, though they should’ve fact checked it.

She was right on these:

He did want the Taliban at Camp David

“I want to thank President Xi!”

No the stocks weren’t higher!

“No matter what happens with our dispute on trade.” - Trump

“We are working closely with China to help!” -Trump

I remember watching the Desantis V. Newsom debate and Fox News heavily rigged it though Newsom still hit it out of the park, even fact checking the moderators (Sean Hannity). Even with debates being “rigged”, it shouldn’t be impossible for a candidate to function on their own merits yet Trump failed the debate according to Matt Walsh, Elon Musk, RFK Jr, Brett Baer, and others even complimenting how Harris did so well to exceed expectations. Secondly, Trump withdrew out of the Commission On Presidential Debates which was a nonpartisan party that would conduct the presidential debates for decades so, leaving it was a misstep.

[MisterWack]

RFK Jr, Elon Musk, Matt Walsh React to Debate:
https://youtu.be/DeD-xLWA4ro?

[MisterWack]

P. S. Anyone who thinks she was handed the questions before hand are kidding themselves because clearly Trump would’ve known too since they are pretty basic topics in the news cycle for almost a year now: Immigration, January 6th, Employment, Inflation, and Abortion. If you can’t answer those questions then you are unhinged.
He compared abortion to student loan debt while Kamala Harris used an actual example. All he had to do was memorize & practice a response, couldn’t do it.

[buzzword]

The media did everything they could to try to patch the holes in Kama's sinking ship and to try to sink Trump, but Kamala came off not only looking like a dumb incompetent liar, it also made Kamala look weak and corrupt beyond measure being that Kamala needed so much help to lose a debate.

[HighValue]

"Fact checkers" are just liberal propaganda pushers that lie. Just like they did when they tried to push the Russian collusion lie, or pretending Hunter Biden's laptop was fake, or when they lied about the covid shots being safe and effective. Liberal fact checkers frequently lie.

[Bricealan]

Why 'fact check" Trump... and not Harris? That in and of itself is enough to answer your question. Really pathetic to see a debate conducted that way.

[Red_Arrow]

No, not at all. Everything Harris said was easily checked and they probably did fact check her. Pretty much all that Trump said was either an outright lie, or he double-spoke to prevent being held to a specific answer.

[Guacamole409]

This is probably the most blatantly rigged debate in history. That’s why Kamala chose ABC.

[Anonymous]

That and they gave Kamala the questions before hand to memorize answers.

[Kelley1]

Likely, that is true.

[MisterWack]

They were pretty basic questions if you look at them. No reason why Trump couldn’t predict them and practice a response. Immigration, January 6th, Employment, Inflation, and Abortion. If you can’t answer those questions then you are unhinged.
He compared abortion to student loan debt while Kamala Harris used an actual example.

[Kelley1]

@MisterWack In spite of the fact, that it was a rigged debate to aid Harris, Trump didn't do good. Harris kept baiting Trump and he kept taking the bates. Even if the debate was not rigged, likely the debate would have a draw.

[Opinion Owner]

@kelley1
Harris needed to answer all the questions to clearly define herself and her real policy platform as distinct from Biden-harris, or her 2019 campaign. She failed to answer said questios, instead she simply showed she and the moderators can gang up and agitate Trump. Which of course told nobody anything we didn't already know about either of them.

Yes Trump could have done better he missed many great opperunties to hit back, but we really didn't learn or need to learn anything about Trump unlike Harris he actually does talk to everyone about everything, and has been president so we know how he governs. Harris and the moderators are also not the first people to agitate him so no news there either.

All that basically makes the debate a waste of time.

[noohair]

It was a hit job on Trump. Instead of bullets they use a 3 on one and did not fact check all her bullshit. She told absolute lies and got away with it. Look at her first one on one interview on Friday. She is a disaster waiting to happen.

[Surely]

It was one sided. Harris told some outright lies. Ones that there videos of her saying the opposite. Which then the question should have been. Why are you flipping?

[Vegasrunner]

@Surely They proably were to focused on Cheetoe and his people eating pets claim. Face it, he was outmatched same way he was outmatched in the last election. Never met so many people making excuses for losers I'm my life.

[standardguy]

Of course it was not fair. All over the western word leftist candidates are promoted by the press because Bill Gates gave the press financial support. So these left candidates are for the future world government.

[Dongie]

This what the left is made of. I really don't get how their stupid, weak-minded voters hold their heads up and argues point after point for them. Must be brainwashing.

[Dongie]

Update: Kelly, you really think so? Look around.

[Kelley1]

Absolutely! I don't have much patience for fools like Trump nor for socialists like Harris. I don't know which is worse. It is a sad state of affairs when both choices are horrible. I would rather void the election and have a random drawing of all qualified citizens.

[RavVid]

I think there was a very thin patina of fair professionalism with Harris's distortions unchallenged in anyway the same.

[Alex-Snow]

If Trump was not spewing baltent stupid lies they would not have had to fact check the idiot

[onedarkcloud]

I think 11 to 0 is enough to show a little favoritism/bias.

[Jennz6]

Of course it was rigged

[DJB72]

What I've seen of it, yep...

[gatixek710]

Fact checkers are nothing but dem propaganda.

[Vegasrunner]

Calling out obvious lies is rigging?

[msc545]

No. Are you guilty of being a sore loser?

[Iron_Man]

No it was not

[MrGSpotHer]

I'm a mushroom 🍄