Donald Trump and MAGA supporters criticized moderators’ performance in the first presidential debate between the former president and Kamala Harris, which aired on ABC on Tuesday night.
Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked and corrected Trump four times but did not correct Harris once, AP reports, during the event in Philadelphia, where candidates sparred over the economy, abortion, foreign policy and immigration.
“I thought that was my best Debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, suggesting moderator bias against him.
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, a former Fox and NBC host, wrote on X: “These moderators are a disgraceful failure and this is one of the most biased, unfair debates I have ever seen. Shame on you @ABC”
Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman who endorsed Trump earlier this month, echoed his remarks: “This debate is three vs one — the ABC moderators clearly shilling for Kamala Harris,” she wrote on X.
The former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., wrote on X: “Weird how the hack moderators at @abcnews are only “Fact checking” Trump and allowing Kamala to lie nonstop. The Fake News is the enemy of the people!”
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ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 7, 2020. Muir and Davis moderated the presidential debate on September 10 in Pennsylvania.
AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File
