Headline RoundupAugust 26th, 2024
2024 Presidential Election, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Presidential Debates, ABC Bias, ABC News
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Donald Trump asked for an upcoming debate to be moved off ofABC, citing a "ridiculous and biased" interview ofa Republican senator. Kamala Harris requested a rule change to keep mics on continuously.
The Details: After ABC (Lean Left bias) aired an interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK), Trump criticized the networkand implied he does not want ABC to host thedebate with Harris scheduled for September 10.Harris recently declined Trump's request for an additional debate on Fox News (Right bias).
- "Will panelist Donna Brazil [sic] give the questions to the Marxist Candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton?" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Will Kamala’s best friend, who heads up ABC, do likewise."
- "Kamala's best friend" refers to Dana Walden, a co-chair of ABC's parent company Disney who oversees its television and streaming business andis close friends with Harris.
Meanwhile, the Harris team asked to reverse a rule used in the Biden-Trump debatethat candidates' mics are muted when not answering a moderator question. Trump's campaign also claimed the Harristeam requested that candidates be allowed to use notes.
- At a press conference, Trump said that he'd prefer unmuted micsbut complained about the timing of the rule change request.
- The Harris campaign responded by telling Newsweek (Center bias)they believe Trump's "handlers...don't think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own."
How the Media Covered It: Portrayal of thecandidates' disagreement fell along familiar partisan lines:left media paintedTrump as petty and indecisive, while right media painted Harris as unable to speak effectively without help. Washington Free Beacon (Right bias)flipped the left media's framing of the storyby inaccurately describing Harris' requests for rule changes as attempts to "back out."Politico (Lean Left bias)noted that Trump's current position is "at odds" with his "demand" during the 2020 debatesthatmics stay on.
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Trump: Fine With Unmuted Microphones at Debate
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday said he is fine with unmuted microphones at his planned Sept. 10 presidential debate on ABC with Kamala Harris. "We agreed to the same rules. I don't know — doesn't matter to me," Trump told CNN when asked whether he wanted microphones muted in the debate. "I'd rather have it probably on, but the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time. In that case, it was muted. Uh, I didn't like it the last time, but it worked...
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Donald Trump isn't preparing for Kamala Harris debate
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Talking to reporters Monday morning in Falls Church, Virginia, former President Donald Trump responded to a question about his preparation for debating Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump, appearing at the Eden Center, the largest Vietnamese commercial center on the east coast, was asked by a reporter, "how he was specifically preparing to debate" Harris. The Republican nominee responded, "I'm not, really, I'm not. I'm not spending a lot of time on it. I think my whole life I've been preparing for debate." Trump continues to question whether he should debate...
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Trump flirts with bailing on Harris debate—again
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Donald Trump has a conundrum. Despite some hemming and hawing, he made the right call in debating President Joe Biden and won the battle of “who looks oldest.” He certainly can’t reprise that against Vice President Kamala Harris at the ABC News debate on Sept. 10. And the optics of “prosecutor vs. felon” are brutal for Trump. Unlike Biden, Harris won’t bizarrely let that go. Trump also doesn’t want to talk about abortion, which Harris will hit hard. He will surely rail against immigration, but Harris will just as surely...
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