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Towlie

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Wed Sep 11, 2024, 10:38 AM Sep 2024

It's not that the mods didn't fact-check Harris, it's that she passed their fact-checks! [View all]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/11/republicans-blame-moderators-trump-debate-performance-00178591

Republicans know Donald Trump didn’t win Tuesday’s debate. And they know who to blame: the media.

“It was three-on-one. They continued to engage in so-called fact-checking of Donald Trump. They never did that to Kamala Harris,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told reporters.

“You have two moderators there who acted as agents of the Harris campaign,” said David Bossie, a longtime Trump adviser and Republican National Committee member from Maryland.

“It was a little outrageous that they would fact-check only one candidate on the fly,” said Tim Murtaugh, who was the communications director for Trump’s 2020 campaign.

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