Moderators made mincemeat of what will likely be Donald Trump’s only debate with Kamala Harris.
ABC News hosts, David Muir and Linsey Davis, appeared to visibly favour the Biden administration appointee.
The debate’s questions and interrogative statements have led many to say the whole affair displayed a bias against Trump.
Even the ‘fact-checking’ double standards became a double down on misdirection.
The global audience picked up on an unwillingness to hold the Vice President accountable to the same standard being applied to Trump.
Harris’ half-truths and erroneous statements were allowed to slide.
These included comments relating to the ‘very fine people’ hoax, Project 2025, disinformation about abortion, false claims about climate change, and the January 6 incident.
The ABC moderator decided to inject herself into the debate.
HERE is a fact check on babies left to die after surviving abortion in Tim Walz’s Minnesota:https://t.co/mpFMhmH11H pic.twitter.com/dQdt15vT1E
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) September 11, 2024
In the end, Trump wasn’t only debating Harris, he was unexpectedly forced to defend himself against attacks from the ABC.
Every time Trump scored a big political win, the moderators moved the debate along.
At one point, Trump landed a significant win, rightly stating that Democrat campaign rhetoric helped to ‘put a bullet in his head’. The words were barely out of his mouth when Muir reshuffled the deck.
Trump was able to corner Harris on the Democrat policy of abortion up to birth before the discussion was met with a quick diversion.
.@michaeljknowles points out the LIE that ABC moderators told about killing babies after they are born:
“Kamala Harris’s own running mate, Tim Walz, repealed protections for babies who survive abortions in the state of Minnesota.” pic.twitter.com/y2l4jWkV1V
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 11, 2024
When Trump pinned Kamala down on false claims about the ‘insurrection’ by contrasting January 6 with the destruction caused by Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters, the moderators once again jumped in.
This happened over, and over again.
What was advertised as fair play did not feel like it.
Furiously protesting the one-sided moderation, independent media megastar, Megan Kelly, shared her thoughts.
The moderators did Walton’s bidding tonight, she argued, adding that it was ‘three against one’.
‘Trump did the best he could under the circumstances. He tried to take the all on. He did fine, even though he was thrown a few times, when he was unnecessarily defensive.’
‘[Trump was] getting angry, and so was I,’ Kelly exclaimed. ‘Trusting ABC News with this debate was a mistake.’
‘Republicans must learn from this, the same way Democrats never agree to do anything with moderators they don’t entirely trust.
‘This should be the last time Republicans ever do this, because those two moderators tried to sink Donald Trump tonight.’
Robert F. Kennedy Jnr. also weighed in, saying the ‘moderators were clearly biased’.
He said that they were ‘constantly fact-checking Donald Trump, and none of these whoppers the Vice President was dropping’.
The ABC moderators didn’t call on her to explain inconsistencies, he added, and ‘simply sat there on the sidelines and allowed that to pass’.
BREAKING: RFK Jr is GOING OFF on the ABC moderators
You have to hear this pic.twitter.com/fE2Z64h4ym
— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) September 11, 2024
Swimming superstar and outspoken LGBT critic, Riley Gaines, noted:
‘Not even two months ago the former President was shot in the head in an assassination attempt and the moderators didn’t bring it up once. You realise how deliberate and insane that is, right?’
William Wolfe quipped, ‘I’m still surprised the moderators didn’t give their own closing statements.’
In a CNN video of undecided voter responses to the debate, being shared widely on X, one female voter explained:
‘We need to remember that we’re voting for the leader of our country, and not who we like the most, or who we want in our wedding party. We are voting for who is actually going to make our country better.’
Both candidates have been in office and the audience pointed out that they have already seen what they can do.
‘When facts come to facts, my life was better when Trump was in office,’ she said.
As Australia’s own Miranda Divine concluded:
‘Trump came across as serious and resolute. Harris’ haughty split-screen pantomime came across as unserious and unlikeable. It goes without saying that the ABC was a disgrace.’
The debate bottom line:
If Americans want a Commander in Chief, vote Trump.
If they want to be ‘mothered’, vote Kamala.
It’s MAGA vs. Marxism.
Despite biased moderators turning the presidential debate into the Commie-La Harris monologues, Trump ran a strong defence.
Contrary to the consensus, I don’t think he lost the debate.