Wow! ABC’s presidential debate was remarkably skewed. Donald Trump drew specific hardball questions. Kamala Harris drew vague, open-ended softballs. Trump was “fact checked” six times. Harris never was. When you think the point of being a professional journalist is to Destroy Trump, of course you’re going to be proud of this debate moderation.
Senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino joins the show to underline how ABC defines “professionalism.” We wanted to apologize for saying in pre-debate interviews that maybe ABC would be like Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were on CNN for the Trump-Biden debate in June.
The worst part was asking Harris “questions” that sounded like “your turn. Go.” Harris clearly had pre-rehearsed answers. So vague questions made it easier to dodge and launch into the boilerplate. On Afghanistan, they asked “do you believe you bear any…
