The presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Republican party blamed ABC News for setting up the debate against Kamala Harris. The hosting by presenters David Muir and Linsey Davis has been heavily criticized, even by various media outlets such as the New York Post.
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"They set up an ambush, as I imagined would happen. It is evident in the fact that they corrected everything, but did not correct her," Trump stated to the right-wing network Fox News on Wednesday.
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Before Tuesday's debate, the former president warned Fox News last Wednesday that Kamala Harris is friends with a senior executive at ABC News and despite having already accepted the debate on this television network, he labeled it as "dishonest." He also said that the Democrat would "receive the questions in advance," although he did not present any evidence of that.
The comments exploded on social media against the Disney-owned network and the presenters.
"The moderators at ABC are fact-checking, incorrectly! - and in such a surprisingly obviously one-sided way, that Trump enduring the ambush as well as he is, is a victory... This debate has been a total farce, the questions are all attacks against Trump, it's 3 against 1. Outrageous," said conservative X host Buck Sexton.
"David Muir is criticizing and attacking Trump more than Kamala... Kamala can relax because the 'moderators' at ABC are handling the debate for her," journalist Glenn Greenwald expressed.
"This has been an absolute disaster for ABC's credibility," said NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck on his X account @CurtisHouck.
"Donald Trump also had to fight against the presenters," says New York Post.
The New York Post dedicated its cover to "the ambush" of Kamala Harris with ABC News presenters David Muir and Linsey Davis against Donald Trump. The media titled it with the term "Kambush", a compound word between Kamala and "ambush".
“AMBUSH! Donald Trump was not only debating Kamala Harris last night, he also had to fight against the ABC News moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, who never fact-checked but repeatedly interrupted him and asked him tougher questions. Trump was shaken when Harris and the ABC hosts conspired against him during the debate,” stated the aforementioned American media outlet, taking a stance on the debate between the Republican and Democrat.