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Haitian migrants residing in Springfield, Ohio, shared with ABC News their harrowing experiences of living in constant fear, expressing deep concerns about their safety that prevent them from venturing outside their homes. In a town of more than 58,000 residents, threats of bombings and shootings led to the closure of city buildings and schools for several days. Wittenberg University canceled all activities on Sunday and classes on Monday as a precautionary measure. James Fleurijean, a Haitian Community Help & Support Center member, stated that the continual spread of false and divisive statements from prominent politicians was fostering an environment of...

Vice President Kamala Harris recently sat down for her first solo interview since securing the Democratic nomination, but the outcome did not go as smoothly as some may have hoped. The interview, conducted by ABC News reporter Brian Taff and aired on ABC 6, raised concerns about the network’s editorial decisions, particularly in how Harris’ responses were presented to viewers. During the short interview, Harris was asked to provide specific actions she would take to lower costs for Americans, a pressing issue as inflation continues to impact households across the country. However, instead of offering a clear, concise response, Harris...

Presidential debates are remembered for the candidates’ pithy one-liners. But in the chaotic political landscape of 2024, a simple statement of fact served as the showstopper on Tuesday’s showdown between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” said ABC News moderator Linsey Davis in the matter-of-fact style familiar to viewers who watch her on the Sunday edition of “ABC World News Tonight” and her nightly streaming newscast “ABC News Live Prime.” Her correction was a response to Trump’s claim that the...

Either fact-check both candidates or don't bother.This week's first and possibly only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was not nearly as consequential as the June debate, which ended President Joe Biden's political career. It also differed in another key way: The moderation was incredibly one-sided and unfair. Want more on free speech, social media, and why everyone in the media is wrong everywhere all the time? Sign up for Free Media from Reason and Robby Soave. This was not true of the previous debate, between Biden and Trump. CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana...

ABC News anchor Linsey Davis revealed in a post-debate Los Angeles Times puff-piece profile how she, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC producers schemed to ambush President Trump with ‘fact checks’ at Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia with Kamala Harris after watching Trump crush and knock Joe Biden out of the race in their June debate. The fact checking at the debate was one-sided, with Trump being interrupted by Muir and Davis several times with ‘fact checks’ while Harris was not ‘fact checked’ once. Going into the debate, there was concern about Harris’ friendship with a...

If you watched Tuesday’s ABC debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, you saw that the moderators were doing everything they could to help Harris. A recent fluff piece on ABC’s Lindsey Davis in the LA Times not only proves this to be fact, but she’s bragging about their behind-the-scenes plan to ensure Trump was not able to end Harris’s campaign the same way he did President Joe Biden’s at the CNN debate in June. If you watched Tuesday’s ABC debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, you saw that the moderators...

Rumors are flying online that a whistleblower is going to come forward today in the form of a sworn Affidavit to expose the alleged “rigging” of the Debate in favor of Kamala Harris. But is it true? We don’t just publish rumors here, we investigate and give you the straight scoop — as best we can determine. So let’s dig in…. It all started yesterday when reports like this started to go viral online from some pretty big, normally reputable accounts: ****************************************************** Chuck Callesto @ChuckCallesto · Follow BOMBSHELL REPORT: ABC whistleblower to reveal Harris campaign was given SAMPLE QUESTIONS that...

VIDEOThe breaking scandal about the Kamala Harris campaign being fed the questions in advance for the ABC News debate has a familiar ring. The Quiz Show scandal of the 1950s. Back then the games were rigged for ratings and the debate was rigged for politics. "Quiz Show" was a major motion picture and now it is a major political scandal. Coming soon to a wide screen TV near you!We don't need an ABC Whistleblower to tell us the debate was a scandal. Just ask yourselves how many times the moderators fact checked the many obvious lies of Kamala Harris. If...

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the ABC News debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. One question in particular is raising eyebrows: Did Harris’s team receive the debate questions in advance? While Harris appeared shaky at the start, she found her rhythm quickly, especially after Trump took the bait on a dig about rally sizes. That moment allowed Harris to steer the conversation away from more critical topics like inflation and immigration, which could have easily sunk her. Instead of addressing these pressing issues, she spouted her usual word salad and never truly answered the...

Former Clinton advisor Mark Penn called for an investigation into ABC News for rigging the presidential debate against Trump. Trump and Kamala Harris faced off for their first presidential debate on Tuesday. It was 3 against 1. The debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, fact-checked Trump at every turn yet and they ignored all of Kamala Harris’s lies

I asked yesterday morning whether Kamala Harris’ camp got the ABC News debate questions in advance. The vice president was visibly nervous for the first portion of the debate but got into a groove, I’m not saying this is fact, but if this is true, it’s a major scandal:

Presidential debates have often been compared to professional wrestling matches, but the ABC News debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris more closely resembled a handicap match, with Trump taking on three opponents at once: Harris and both moderators. As “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir and ABC News Live “Prime” anchor Linsey Davis regularly fact-checked Trump in real time, they allowed Harris to get by with numerous evasions and false statements on such issues as late-term abortions, post-birth executions, government pregnancy monitors, the economy, and haggard canards about “very fine people” at Charlottesville. Here are...

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum made Wednesday’s paper with the smugly confident post-presidential debate “Media Memo,” “ABC’s Matter-of-Fact Moderators Built Factual Guardrails Around Trump.” Fifteen minutes into Tuesday’s debate, former President Donald J. Trump was delivering a circuitous answer about his stance on abortion rights when he made a statement with no basis in reality: that a governor had condoned executing babies after birth. Linsey Davis, one of the evening’s moderators from ABC News, did not let that one slide. “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,”...

ABC News failed to disclose that Kamala Harris and ABC News anchor Linsey Davis, who co-moderated Tuesday night’s debate between Harris and President Trump, are sorority sisters in the influential Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. AKA formed a PAC in August after Harris became the Democrats’ presidential nominee. The sorority connection is one more possible clue as to why the debate moderated by Davis and ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir was so one-sided in favor of Harris. Muir and Davis interrupted Trump numerous times to fact check and argue with him while they did not fact check Harris...

“Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson told the Daily Beast. “Harris was not given any questions before the debate,” adding no aides were in contact with the moderators either.ABC has denied Vice President Kamala Harris was given any questions ahead of Tuesday’s debate, shooting down one of the talking points that right-wingers—including former President Donald Trump—tried to use to explain the former president’s much-criticized debate performance. “Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “Harris was not given any questions before the debate.” The network’s debate rules stated that “no topics or questions will be shared in advance...

Mark 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." ABC News came under significant bipartisan criticism because its moderators fact-checked some of Donald Trump's statements but none from Kamala Harris. Trump said Thursday that the debate was three-on-one and declined to participate in another one before the election. Anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis moderated the first debate between Harris and Trump,...

Former President Donald Trump declared Thursday that there will be “NO THIRD DEBATE” with Vice President Kamala Harris, minutes after an internal campaign poll showed his Democratic opponent got no polling bounce from their verbal sparring match on ABC News earlier this week. “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are ‘I WANT A REMATCH,'” Trump, 78, posted on his Truth Social. “Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate.” After being a “no-show”...

VIDEOIf you think that the ABC News debate moderators, which included a SORORITY SISTER of Kamala, were biased then meet the over the top biased TDS moderators of the upcoming Vice-Presidential CBS debate on October 1. Norah O'Donnell who is so divorced from reality as to be a Border Czar Denialist and Margaret Brennan whose hatred of Trump is so extreme that she slammed him just hours after he was shot on July 13. Both of these moderators need to be labeled with disclaimers that they hate Trump in particular and MAGA in general. Will they also FAIL to fact...

It's a fair question. Why? Because it’s happened before. It’s not some tin foil hat, pie-in-the-sky conspiracy theory: Democrats hired by major news networks have fed debate questions to their party’s presidential nominees. While many analyses and polls are being discussed about the ABC News debate on Tuesday, what about the possibility that Harris got the questions in advance? To tee this up, let’s not forget that Donna Brazile gave the Clinton campaign the questions before the CNN debate: Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile acknowledged sending town hall topics to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, calling it a “mistake...

During Tuesday night’s debate, ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis interrupted Donald Trump five times to “fact-check” his answers. They did the same to Kamala Harris … never. The vice president was allowed to skate through the debate without substantive follow-up questions or pushback on some of her obviously false claims. So since ABC didn’t do its job, here are some of the fact checks they should have made: