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Jeffrey Toobin Says ABC Moderators Mastered the Debate

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A lot of cable news pundits (i.e., liberals) are praising the job of ABC presidential debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. Why? Because they fact-checked Donald Trump, who lied like 33 times, but not Kamala Harris, who told only one untruth, according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale.

I was covering the debate, and it didn't take long for me to find the first "Candy Crowley moment."  Davis interjected that Trump was telling a falsehood when he said his opponent supported abortions even after delivery. The thing is, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz signed legislation allowing a baby who survived a botched abortion to be denied medical care.

OK, so maybe it wasn't such a good idea for the moderators to act as fact-checkers. As I reported earlier, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler was so impressed that he thought Muir and Davis set the model for debates going forward. To me, it looked like the death of the debate … there's no point in having them anymore if this is how they're going to be run.

Also impressed by the moderators was CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, who of course locked down replies. He's a very private person, you know.

Of course, Toobin would think they did an excellent job. They let Harris say whatever she wanted without any fact-checking or follow-ups.

Personally, and I hate to say it, I thought Harris won the debate. Not by not being horrible. Trump was off his game, and expectations were so low for the woman who serves up word salad anytime she doesn't have a script. The bar for Harris was low, and she crossed it.

The New York Times seems to have noticed that, like critic scores vs. audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, the pundits were a lot more impressed that the viewers.

Yeah, the focus groups of undecided voters didn't exactly think Harris ran away with it:

I admit I'm petrified that the race is as close as it is. Harris is a moron with zero accomplishments. She has to reach back to her days as a prosecutor to find any.

We did find a Harris supporter:

Trump called in to "Fox & Friends" this morning and said he wasn't crazy about a debate moderated by Bret Baier and Martha McCallum, which had been proposed — he preferred Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, or Jesse Watters. I'd love to see Harris show up at a debate moderated by Watters. It would be biased as hell, but it would balance out ABC's garbage debate.

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