Second, party and candidate platforms are usually debated in more detail than during a presidential debate. They’re supposed to be more substantive with fewer fireworks and more specifics. This allows the VP candidates to attempt to serve their third purpose which is to attack the opponents’ presidential candidate while propping up their own presidential candidate.

Last night’s CBS News debate exemplified all three purposes. The lone deviation was the moderators who once again inserted themselves into the debate by carrying water for Democrat Tim Walz while trying to discredit Republican J.D. Vance. At times, moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan were insufferable.

Here are six key takeaways for those who didn’t watch as well as for those who did watch and might have missed a few details.

Vance’s Debate Skills in 43-Seconds

The “Whac-a-Mole” moment during the debate checked all the boxed. In 43-seconds, Vance attacked his opponent, attacked Kamala Harris, promoted Donald Trump, and added a personal anecdote on top.

This is the best 43-second answer in a debate that I have listened to in my lifetime.
J.D. Vance was a brilliant choice.#VPDebate2024 pic.twitter.com/6dHEkEjNjZ

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) October 2, 2024

This will be a moment that future debaters analyze while preparing their own candidates.

Vance Dominated the Optics Battle

To fulfill the first goal of the debate, Vance presented himself to the American people as intelligent, confident, and well prepared. He handled the “gotcha” attacks from both Walz and the moderators with the precision of a highly skilled debater with only a few missteps on messaging.

In contrast, Walz came across as a buffoon. His first answer started off very rocky as he was conspicuously nervous, tripping over words and bouncing around different talking points. At one point he even noted that he can be a “knucklehead” sometimes.

Words aside, Vance looked great and Walz did not. As Jack Posobiec noted on X:

The entire debate summed up: pic.twitter.com/IZR9UCy4mg

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) October 2, 2024

Scarlett Johnson reiterated the point:

My daughters think Vance is “hot.”

My husband says he's never heard conservatism explained in such a relatable and common-sense way.

I think Vance SLAYED. pic.twitter.com/dpSTNkjPQE

— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) October 2, 2024

Throughout the debate, Vance presented himself as presidential and a man Americans could follow while Walz came across as the bumbling uncle families don’t look forward to hearing from on Thanksgiving.

Walz Bombed the One Tough Question He Was Asked

The only thing the debate moderators did fairly the entire night was to ask Walz about his bald-faced lie on being there during the Tiananmen Square massacre. It didn’t go well.

Tim Walz just admitted he is a LIAR on national TV

It is the single most awkward moment in American debate history

Just watch… pic.twitter.com/HWTBhBv8Rq

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 2, 2024

As bad as Walz’ response was, it’s hard to imagine any way this guy could have answered the question without looking awful. He took a bad circumstance and sprinkled moronic all over it.

Trust the Experts?

There was a moment in the debate that may not get as much attention from pundits as other exchanges but the viewers noticed. Many were likely nodding their heads unconsciously as Vance gave a brief history lesson about “the experts.”

WATCH: J.D. Vance decimates Tim Walz with a series of brutal fact checks.

“Governor, you say trust the experts, but those same experts for 40 years said that if we shipped our manufacturing base off to China, we'd get cheaper goods. They lied about that.”

“They said if we… pic.twitter.com/cZ810urWYD

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) October 2, 2024

Of all the moments in the debate, this is the one that will stick in the back of people’s minds long after the election.

Tim Said What?

It was brief, but voters who noticed what Walz said about school shooters may have questions.

Yes, Walz said he had become friends with school shooters. He likely meant he had become friends with school shooting victims and their families, but unfortunately for him anyone who heard his actual words won’t forget them.

Even CNN Thinks Walz Stunk It Up

Unprepared? Overprepared? Outmatched? Whatever narrative corporate media tries to spin for Walz, the fact that they aren’t out there praising Walz the way they fawned over Kamala Harris after her debate is telling.

BREAKING: CNN admits Tim Walz lost the debate pic.twitter.com/VrHrNzrNKT

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 2, 2024

They might as well have just said he was a buffoon and moved on. They’re not going to dwell on this debate very long. They’ll move on as quickly as possible, sweeping it under the rug while drastically reducing coverage of Walz going forward.

The Verdict Is Obvious

This may have been the most lopsided VP debate in modern history. And to be clear, Walz did far better than many expected. But Vance was dominant even though he missed a handful of opportunities.

It’s conspicuous that he didn’t bring up the lawfare against his running mate, even when Walz gave him the perfect opening by highlighting how Trump talks about locking up both Hillary Clinton and Harris.

It was a no-good, awful night for Walz and very few expected otherwise.

A sworn statement by an ABC News whistleblower exposing network bias favoring Harris continues to be in focus regarding “assurances” to the Democrat’s campaign days before the event.

Now David Muir, anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” and co-moderator of the debate, is defending his performance during the matchup, as ratings for his evening news broadcast have plunged some 12% in the aftermath.

Note the date of the tweet below, almost a week before the debate. ABC gave Kamala Harris assurances that she would be favored in the debate on Sept 10. The ABC whistleblower confirmed this in a sworn affidavit the day before the debate. The ABC presidential debate was rigged in… https://t.co/7v9ffkfPJH

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) September 17, 2024

“ABC News has offered assurances to the Harris campaign that if there is significant cross talk between Harris and Trump, the network may choose to turn on the mics so that the public can understand what is happening, the moderator would discourage either candidate from interrupting constantly and the moderator would also work to explain to viewers what is being said, according to the source familiar,” CNN reported.

ABC News insists it did not break debate rules, initially stating: “ABC News followed the debate rules that both campaigns agreed on and which clearly state: No topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.”

A network spokesperson later told the Daily Beast: “Absolutely not. Harris was not given any questions before the date.”

The X account that posted the purported affidavit, @DocNetyoutube, reacted to ABC’s denial, stating:

Yesterday, ABC made a statement regarding the whistleblower affidavit. The only thing ABC said was that they did not give the questions or the topics to the Harris campaign. Well, nobody accused ABC of doing that. ABC has been accused of the following:

1.) Giving the Harris campaign sample questions, similar to the actual questions that would be used for the debate.
2.) Agreeing to give Harris a smaller podium and other arrangements to minimize the size differential between Harris and Trump.
3.) Fact Checking would be done for Donald Trump and NOT Kamala Harris
4.) Harris campaign gave questions to ABC that were not to be included in the debate. Including questions regarding her time as DA in SF and her time as California Attorney General.

Out of all these accusations, the fact checking of Trump has been admitted to. The podium and split screen appearance to keep the height differential have already been proven, ABC did NOT deny communications with the Harris campaign without the Trump campaign being present and they will never deny that because they cannot. According to the whistleblower, ABC executives made numerous phone calls with the Harris campaign without including the Trump campaign on the call. Everything the whistleblower has submitted has been proven except for sample questions. There will be another tweet later today announcing action to be taken against ABC and the affiliates of ABC.

As WND reported Sunday, Sept. 15, an ABC News whistleblower released an affidavit punishable by perjury specifying allegations that the network made numerous assurances to the Harris campaign to favor the Democratic nominee for president.

ABC whistleblower affidavit has been released by @DocNetyoutube this morning. It alleges as a sworn statement under penalty of perjury that ABC coordinated with the Harris campaign to give her sample questions, assurances that Trump would be fact checked and Kamala would not, and… pic.twitter.com/DNyI2clpvS

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) September 15, 2024

The sworn statement indicated: “It was agreed that Donald Trump would be subjected to fact-checking during the debate, while Kamala Harris would not comparable scrutiny. This was widely known throughout the company that Donald Trump would be fact-checked. In fact, various people were assigned to fact check observations it was perceived candidate Trump would make during the debate.

“In fact, [the] Harris campaign required assurances that Donald Trump would be fact checked. This was done via multiple communications with the Harris campaign whereas the Trump campaign was not included in the negotiations. To my understanding, any rules negotiations and conversations pertaining to the debate should have had both the Trump and Harris campaign involved, the Harris campaign had numerous more calls regarding the debate rules without the Trump campaign aware or on the call.”

The statement also says: “The Harris campaign was provided with sample questions that, while not the exact questions, covered similar topics that would appear during the debate.”

“Furthermore, the Harris campaign imposed serious restrictions on the scope of questioning, including:

• No questions regarding the perceived health of President Joe Biden.
• No inquires regarding her tenure as attorney general in San Francisco.
• No questions concerning her brother-in-law, Tony West, who faces allegations of embezzling billions of dollars in taxpayer funds and who may be involved in her administration if elected.

The whistleblower claims to have “observed a pronounced bias against Donald Trump within ABC News. Employees expressing favorable views towards him experience significant concerns about potential retribution.”

On Tuesday, Muir called the controversy over ABC’s performance “just noise.”

“All of the noise that you hear afterward about you know, ‘Which candidate won the debate, did the moderators win or lose?’” Muir told the audience on ABC’s “Live With Kelly and Mark.”

“That’s just noise. You all know that. The most important thing to remember is you all have the power.”

He said it was the “duty” of him and co-moderator Linsey Davis to discuss issues of importance to Americans, mentioning their inquiries about the border crisis, economy, reproductive rights, Afghanistan and the peaceful transfer of power.

“These are all really important issues, the issues of our time, really, and I always say as a moderator, what the candidates decide to do with that time – you can ask the questions, but they’ll answer with whatever they choose to answer with, and you have to be ready for whatever might come your way, even the most unexpected of moments,” Muir said.

ABC's David Muir says that the controversy surrounding his historically awful moderation of the presidential debate is "just noise."

Well his ratings are DOWN 12% following the debate. Less people are listening to his nightly noise now. Good! pic.twitter.com/XBH6KPLxni

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 17, 2024

Muir’s appearance on Tuesday’s talk show was perhaps prompted by a 12% drop in ratings for his nightly news broadcast since the debate.

Fox News reports: “Muir’s ‘World News Tonight’ averaged 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the three episodes following the debate, after averaging 7.6 million in 2024 leading up to the debate.

“The 12% drop in viewers for ‘World News Tonight’ is more significant than slight declines ‘CBS Evening News’ and ‘NBC Nightly News’ saw when comparing the three episodes following ABC’s debate to the year-to-date totals, although Muir’s newscast remained the No. 1 broadcast evening newscast.”

ABC News fact-checked Trump at least five times during the Sept 10 debate, but preferred not a single fact-check for Harris.

Davis told the Los Angeles Times last week that her intense fact-checking of Trump was influenced by the June 27 debate on CNN that prompted President Joe Biden to exit the 2024 race.

“People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis told the paper.

On Sunday, five days after the debate, Martha Raddatz of ABC News finally admitted Harris was wrong when she said during the debate there is “not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world.”

“Our fact-checkers found that to be false,” Raddatz said.

“There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. All have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. We also have action in the Red Sea,” Raddatz added. “Also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid.”

Neither Muir nor Davis alerted their 70 million debate viewers to the egregious falsehood by Harris.

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The Disney-owned network’s broadcast news program hosted by Muir that airs at 6:30 p.m. EDT drew an average of 7.6 million viewers before the September 10 debate, but only drew an average of 6.7 million viewers in the three days after the debate, according to Fox News. Muir and Davis, who hosts the program on weekends, were criticized for making so-called “fact checks” on Trump more often than Harris during the event, even though Harris made false statements about Trump’s position on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other issues.

Davis said their decision to be more proactive in fact-checking Trump stemmed from the June 27 debate hosted by CNN between the former president and President Joe Biden.

ABC's David Muir says that the controversy surrounding his historically awful moderation of the presidential debate is "just noise."

Well his ratings are DOWN 12% following the debate. Less people are listening to his nightly noise now. Good! pic.twitter.com/XBH6KPLxni

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 17, 2024

“People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis said during a Sept. 11 interview with the Los Angeles Times.

Trump later said he “lost a bit of respect” for Muir after the debate.

“It was so … one-sided,” he told Fox News. “It was one against three.”

Conservatives agreed with the former president, saying the debate was rigged against Trump, with the former president having to not only contend with Harris, but also Muir and Davis. At one point during the debate, Davis asked Harris about changes in positions on policy issues, but did not press the vice president when Harris discussed “values” instead of responding to the question.

ABC News reporter Martha Raddatz noted Sunday that Harris had misstated facts about American troops being in harm’s way during the debate, something Muir and Davis didn’t do during the debate, Fox News reported.

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ABC established a rule to mute the microphones until it is the candidate’s turn to speak, though that did not stop both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris from blurting out remarks while their opponent spoke. Scarborough alleged on “Morning Joe” that Trump continued blurting out comments and receiving more time than he had been planned to have due to the moderators’ alleged failure to enforce the rules.

“And again, anybody who thinks that’s why [Trump] lost the debate, that he was corrected three times. But, you know, he got about 7 minutes more because the debate moderators allowed him to keep breaking the rules,” Scarborough said. “Every answer [Harris] had, they would try to move onto something else, he would blurt something out, something crazy for about a minute of 2 minutes, breaking the rules. And, I was actually sitting there going ‘are you going to enforce your rules or not?’ I mean, I don’t know if you remember but when [Trump] came on our show, he didn’t talk over us, or we hung up.”

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough accused ABC's debate moderators of allowing Trump to break the rules pic.twitter.com/bKuKVEG69R

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 12, 2024

Trump alleged the moderators showed evident bias against him and even called for ABC to lose their license. They fact-checked the former president more times than Harris, though she made several false claims throughout the debate.

Muir and Davis did not correct Harris when falsely said that Trump called Neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people” in the aftermath of the 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia. Snopes rated this claim false in June, noting that the former president said those groups of people should be “condemned totally.”

Harris further said made the false claims that Trump wants to ban in vitro fertilization (IVF) and impose a national abortion ban. The moderators issued a fact-check to the former president when he said some Democratic states allow for late-term abortions and for babies to be killed in the case that they survive a botched abortion attempt.

Davis, who fact-checked Trump on abortion, ignored that Harris’ running mate Tim Walz signed an ominous bill in 2023 that allowed for physicians to refuse life-saving medical care for infants born alive in a botched abortion. Twenty-four abortion procedures between 2015 and 2022 led to live births, in which seven babies were provided with “comfort care” to ensure their deaths were more comfortable, according to the National Catholic Register.

Muir and David also fact-checked Trump when he asserted that Haitian migrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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And predictably, both the moderators and Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t let pesky facts get in the way of their shared agenda.

Harris refused to identify a single limit on abortion that she would support. And what she did say was sometimes outright false. She implied, for instance, that pregnant women can’t receive miscarriage care in pro-life states. That’s not true.

She said that women don’t get an abortion after carrying a pregnancy to term. What does she mean by “term”? Thousands of late-term abortions happen every year.

One of ABC’s co-hosts, Linsey Davis, also distorted the truth when she claimed that no states let babies who survive abortions be allowed to die.

That’s also false. In many states, babies who survive abortions have no legal protections. Here’s what Americans deserve to know:

Fact #1: Late-term abortion is legal and far more common than many people realize.

Almost two dozen states have no limits on abortion at all or allow abortion after viability for “health” reasons. Health is often defined broadly, beyond a life-threatening emergency.

In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent abortion data report, more than 4,000 babies were aborted after 21 weeks’ gestation in 2021. At that stage—if given proper medical care—many premature babies can survive.

Regrettably, the real number is higher than 4,000 because radically pro-abortion states such as California and New York don’t submit any abortion data.

Fact #2: Late-term abortions are elective more often than people realize.

Study after study show that women getting late-term abortions largely do so for the same reasons as women who get abortions before viability. Even the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute acknowledges that “most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.” In an Atlantic magazine profile, an abortionist in Colorado who “specializes” in late-term abortion discussed performing sex-selection abortions and said at least half his abortions are on babies who were perfectly healthy.

Fact #3: It’s legal in many states to simply allow a baby who survives an abortion to suffer death by neglect.

In more than half the states, no law fully protects babies who survive an abortion. That means an abortionist can simply abandon such a baby to die and yet suffer no legal consequences. That’s exactly what former President Donald Trump is talking about when he says some states allow abortion after birth. Whatever you call it—a post-birth abortion, infanticide, death by neglect—it’s immoral and inhumane.

Fact #4: This is not a theoretical problem: Babies can and do survive abortions.

Few states actually report data on instances of born-alive infants, and many of those states have gone on to largely prohibit abortion in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the 2022 decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

But from the limited reporting we do have, the facts are disturbing. In just the past few years, there have been 43 documented cases in five states. The CDC estimated that between 2003 and 2014, there were 143 cases.

Melissa Ohden and the Abortion Survivors Network powerfully put faces and names to survivor stories. These men and women are with us today because they beat the odds and survived an abortionist’s attempt to end their life.

The sad truth is that we don’t know exactly how many babies are born alive and left to die in most states, especially those with radically pro-abortion policies. But we do know that the number is greater than zero. Surely, we can agree that any single instance is a travesty and an injustice.

Fact #5: Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, don’t think born-alive babies deserve full legal protections.

As a senator, Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have required that babies who survive an abortion receive the same medical care that would be provided to a “wanted” baby.

Walz signed legislation allowing elective abortion at any stage of pregnancy in Minnesota and gutted the state’s born-alive protections. Just a few years ago, five babies were born alive in Minnesota and left to die. How many more will suffer the same fate?

Abortion will continue to be a hot topic leading up to the election in November. The difference between the candidates’ positions is stark.

Harris can’t name a single limit on abortion that she would support, and supports a bill that would legalize elective abortion through all nine months and repeal every existing pro-life law in the states.

Trump supports the post-Dobbs legal landscape that has allowed roughly half the states to enact pro-life laws that reflect the will of the people.

On abortion policy, facts matter. Unfortunately, far too many people won’t face some cold, hard truths. Healthy babies are aborted when they’re old enough to live outside the womb. Babies can—and do—survive abortion attempts. In many states, abortionists can abandon these tiny, helpless boys and girls to die by denying them proper medical care.

The status quo is appalling. Surely, we as a country can do better than this.

The vice president reiterated on the debate stage that she no longer backs a fracking ban, stated that she favored energy independence and took credit for specific oil and gas-related provisions included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s signature climate bill that passed the Senate with Harris’ tie-breaking vote in 2022. While Harris tried to depict herself as a champion of energy independence and diversifying supply, her record as vice president and as a senator is full of actions that restricted American fossil fuel production.

ABC’s Linsey Davis, one of the debate’s moderators, asked Harris to explain her reversals on a number of topics, ranging from her past support for a fracking ban to her purportedly discarded view that illegal border crossings should be decriminalized.

“So my values have not changed. And I’m going to discuss every one — at least every point that you’ve made. But in particular, let’s talk about fracking because we’re here in Pennsylvania. I made that very clear in 2020. I will not ban fracking. I have not banned fracking as Vice President of the United States,” Harris said in response. “And, in fact, I was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, which opened new leases for fracking.”

As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris said there is “no question” that fracking should be banned, and she did not disown that position in the 2020 vice presidential debate against former Vice President Mike Pence as she suggested on Tuesday night. In the debate against Pence, Harris only went so far as to say that President Joe Biden would not ban fracking.

In the first weeks of the Biden-Harris administration in 2021, Biden signed a since-overturned executive order that effectively prohibited future oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.

Meanwhile, the IRA mandated the federal government to hold 60 million acres worth of offshore oil and gas leases in order to hold more offshore wind lease sales. Ultimately, the Biden administration finalized the bare minimum 60 million acres for offshore oil and gas lease sales in its five-year leasing schedule in December 2023.

The IRA also allowed for the creation of a new tax on methane emissions that has been described by opponents as a de facto natural gas tax that would likely increase costs for consumers.

Onshore, the Biden-Harris administration has taken huge swaths of the federal estate off the table for oil and gas development. The administration has moved to block future oil and gas activity on tens of millions of acres of Alaskan land and canceled previously-awarded leases.

Moreover, federal data analyzed by the Western Energy Alliance shows that the number of onshore acres available for lease sales, the number of leases issued, and the number of acres issued through those leases all trended down under the Biden-Harris administration.

“My position is that we have got to invest in diverse sources of energy so we reduce our reliance on foreign oil,” Harris continued in her response. “We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over rely on foreign oil.”

Nominally, it is true that U.S. oil production reached record highs while Biden was in office. However, as energy sector experts previously explained to the DCNF, this may be an achievement that happened in spite of the administration rather than because of it: fossil fuel production, especially on federal lands, takes years to come to fruition, meaning that some of the output happening today is the product of work done under the Trump administration.

The U.S. is still a net exporter of crude oil as of 2023, according to the Energy Information Administration, but the administration may be more sensitive to global price swings than they let on. Officials have loosely enforced sanctions against Iranian and Russian oil to keep prices stable ahead of the pivotal 2024 election.

The Harris campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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Reuters interviewed 10 undecided voters following Tuesday’s debate, with six claiming to be leaning toward or voting for Trump and three claiming they would support Vice President Kamala Harris. Those who switched toward Trump cited the state of the economy in their decision, while four of the six said Harris’ performance at the debate did not show she has different policies than President Joe Biden.

“I felt like the whole debate was Kamala Harris telling me why not to vote for Donald Trump instead of why she’s the right candidate,” Robert Wheeler, a security firm executive in Nevada, told Reuters.

“I still don’t know what she is for,” Mark Kadish, an entrepreneur in Florida, told Reuters. “There was no real meat and bones for her plans.”

Sixty-three percent of voters who watched the debate said that Harris won the debate, according to a CNN flash poll that surveyed 605 registered voters. Media pundits also praised Harris for her performance following the debate.

More undecided voters, however, were unimpressed with Harris’ responses regarding her plans for office, with several claiming they’re now considering voting for Trump, according to The New York Times.

“When Trump was in office — not going to lie — I was living way better,” she said. “I’ve never been so down as in the past four years. It’s been so hard for me.”

Samira Ali, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student still unsure who she will vote for, told the outlet that Harris “still has to impress” her.

Harris currently polls 1.1% ahead of Trump at 48.4% to his 47.3%, according to the RealClear Polling average that includes surveys from between Aug. 22 and Sept. 6.

“Kamala Harris couldn’t answer the most important question facing undecided voters in this election: are you better off under VP Kamala or were you better off under President Trump?” Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign national press secretary, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “She refused the question because the answer is Trump. If Americans want lower taxes and inflation, a secure border, and a peaceful world, there’s only one option and it’s NOT dangerously liberal Kamala Harris.”

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Things have changed. Today, she’s a strong supporter of his campaign and he has endeared himself to her with multiple interviews. They aren’t best buddies but they have an appreciation for each other that has developed into a professional friendship.

Following the ABC News debate between Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, Kelly went off. She didn’t attack Harris. She went after the debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis. They demonstrated a level of partisan favoritism that has never been so blatant in American debate history.

Watch [Language Warning]:

BREAKING: Megyn Kelly just went on an intense rant calling out the disgusting ABC hosts for working with Kamala Harris to sink Trump and STEAL THE ELECTION

"I'm ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC… pic.twitter.com/Xsq2Mm9Huo

— George (@BehizyTweets) September 11, 2024

Kelly is spot on. The “moderators” participated in a level of lying that has hitherto never been seen during a presidential debate. They “fact checked” Trump on a dozen points while willfully ignoring blatant lies told by Harris. Kelly’s shame for Muir and Davis should be shared by any American who values the truth.

ABC News’ debate “moderators” David Muir and Linsey Davis were partisan hacks who operated on behalf of Kamala Harris throughout the night. They “fact-checked” Donald Trump 11 times while allowing multiple lies from Harris to go unchecked.

In fact, they didn’t fact-check a single one of her many lies.

And this is a good thing… at least it could be. For the Trump campaign, it’s a GREAT thing if they choose to capitalize on it. They are already noting how badly the moderators acted…

JUST IN: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shreds ABC News moderators for ganging up on Trump during the debate and for refusing to fact-check Kamala Harris.

"We had moderators who were clearly biased, who were constantly fact-checking Donald Trump."

"But none of these kind of whoppers… pic.twitter.com/cNAg3kRzJu

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 11, 2024

pic.twitter.com/AQzxmyt9PS

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) September 11, 2024

Trump on the debate: It was THREE ON ONE! pic.twitter.com/HOAZjqPF08

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 11, 2024

Sen. Tom Cotton: "I thought it was a 3-on-1 debate. Where were the fact-checks of Kamala Harris?" pic.twitter.com/kPLFFjb9Mz

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 11, 2024

The big loser from #DebateNight2024 is the mainstream media, as @Peoples_Pundit predicted, proving they are incapable of being independent, impartial interlocutors instead of partisan hacks, as they couldn't even keep a simple promise to not intervene as fake "fact checkers."

— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) September 11, 2024

This is good. We want everyone to know that the debate, like so many things in this and previous elections, was rigged. But it can’t end there.

The Trump team and his surrogates MUST do what ABC News failed to do. They must fact check Harris themselves.

Here’s a good start…

Roll the tape…

Kamala Harris: "There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking."

Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians would lose their jobs.#Debate2024 pic.twitter.com/AAtaP6Ycbb

— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) September 11, 2024

Here's a clip of Kamala saying she would confiscate your guns pic.twitter.com/dNXwKlAO5b

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024

NEW: ABC News fails to fact-check Kamala Harris after she falsely claimed Trump called neo-Nazis in Charlottesville "very fine people."

The claim was even fact-checked by Snopes.

ABC has spent much of the night "fact-checking" Trump but refused to do the same for Harris.

"But… pic.twitter.com/gJvPbSAybY

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 11, 2024

JUST IN: Former Director of Project 2025 Paul Dans says, "Breaking news: Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025." pic.twitter.com/Tgaqzw1gS3

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 10, 2024

WATCH: @TulsiGabbard fact checks Kamala Harris' pathetic lies.

She tried to say he supports a federal abortion ban — he does not.

She tried to tell the American people that he wants to ban IVF — he does not.

She tried to say he wants to ban birth control — he does not. pic.twitter.com/D9ozAfqXMW

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024

This is very likely the last extended interaction we’ll see from Kamala Harris with the press. She’ll do campaign rallies and fundraisers but she won’t take many questions. Maybe she’ll take some in passing. But there will be no other debate. She won’t do any interviews unless she’s allowed to write all the questions. They’re going to sit back and allow her proxies in corporate media to do the work for her.

It’s imperative that every American patriot reaches out to whoever they can to get the facts out there.

• Democrats still want to pin Project 2025 on Trump even though he hasn’t even read it
• Harris is in favor of mandatory gun buybacks even though she pretended not to be during the debate
• Harris wants to ban fracking despite running away from that policy promise over the past month
• She has helped weaponize the DOJ against her political opponent and has been openly giddy about it
• The Biden-Harris regime has not fired anyone despite massive failures on multiple fronts
• She has been in the White House for nearly four years so why would anyone expect another four years to be any better?

The closing argument by Trump was his best. It was important and people need to hear it. And while most commentators are saying he should have gone down that road earlier, I disagree. He made it the punctuation as the closing remark and didn’t give Harris an opportunity to reply.

Donald Trump Delivers Crushing Blow to Kamala Harris in His Closing Statements

“So she just started by saying, she's going to do this, she's going to do that, she's going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn't she done it?”

“I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot… pic.twitter.com/fNgMVR92wU

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) September 11, 2024

September 11 means many things to most Americans. On top of remembering tragedy and acting as a reminder of the fragility of freedom, it also takes on a new, albeit temporary meaning. September 11, 2024, marks the official beginning of the final stretch of the presidential election. It’s go time.

Trump and Harris are slated to compete in their only scheduled presidential debate on ABC News on Tuesday, where both candidates will “stand behind podiums” with a prohibition on “props,” according to the network. The voter named Jesse voiced her anxiety during a 2WAY livestream about the size difference between Harris, who says she is 5-foot-4, and Trump, who asserts he is 6-foot-3.

WATCH:

Democratic Woman 'Really Worried' About How Short Harris Will Look Next To Trump In Debate pic.twitter.com/brH08d5ZMO

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 9, 2024

“I’m a Democrat from Boston, so going way over to the left. And I would also like to just narrow down a question for you technically talented gentlemen, which is I’m really worried about what [former White House Press Secretary] Sean [Spicer] was talking about earlier, of the physical difference in the size of Kamala and Trump at this debate, and they’re going to be standing,” Jesse said. “I was trying to think back to the only time a woman has really put Trump in his place was Nancy Pelosi in the White House and they were both sitting down. If you were advising Kamala, is there anything other than her high heels to do to try and offset? I do think the body language is going to be incredibly important.”

Jesse later said she is “extremely worried” about how Harris will perform in the debate. She said she has “this memory of Trump lurking over Hillary” and she thinks the former president is “so scary.”

The Harris campaign on Wednesday agreed to the Trump campaign’s request for silenced microphone regulations analogous to the ones CNN imposed during the June 27 debate with President Joe Biden. Trump has challenged Harris to two more debates, but the ABC face-off is the only one that is officially scheduled.

Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday that “No boxes or artificial lifts will be allowed to stand on during my upcoming debate with Comrade Kamala Harris,” calling it “a form of cheating.”

Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza on Friday said he believes the ABC debate holds more significance for Harris than for Trump.

“I think she has more riding on it … Trump has a very high floor in terms of voter support and a very low ceiling, he basically moves between 46% and 48% of the vote,” Cillizza said. “He doesn’t go to 52% or 51%. He doesn’t go to 40%. So I don’t know how his numbers move. I think she has potentially more movement there.”

Harris is only leading Trump by .1% in the top seven battleground states, according to the RealClearPolling average. The former president is leading Harris 48% to 47% nationally, according to a Sunday New York Times/Siena College poll conducted from Sept. 3 to Sept. 6.

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