As a person and a citizen who enjoys the free exchange of ideas and debate, I say this with all sincerity: What happened on Tuesday night was no presidential debate. What it was, was an ambush. How can a network make a whole show out of defining rules and claiming on multiple occasions and on the record that they will stick with them, have the candidates agree to these said rules, then decide at the 11th hour, for no other reason than to help one candidate, that you will change the rules without warning?
Changing the rules 30 minutes before the debate. Sounds about right for ABC.
He had to accept this debate, but that doesn’t make the bias any less absurd. pic.twitter.com/K9zLRgSClV
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 11, 2024
This is what ABC did, and it was the first of the many blatantly biased and partisan moments of the night, as my colleagues have covered.
