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On Friday, we published a list of 25 questions that ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis should ask Vice President Kamala Harris at Tuesday’s debate with former President Donald Trump. However, the duo would ask only two of them. On the good side of the list, Davis asked, “I do want to ask, would you support any restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion?” Much later, Davis would ask, “In 2017, you supported Bernie Sanders' proposal to do away with private insurance and create a government-run health care system. Two years later, you proposed a plan that included a private insurance option. What is your plan today?”   Kamala Harris refuses to answer the question from ABC's Linsey Davis whether she "support[s] any restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion" pic.twitter.com/8pQcrWxRcY — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2024   ABC also rehashed Harris’s past positions on the border and fracking that were on our previous list of questions that CNN’s Dana Bash should ask Harris. The bad came when Muir asked, “I want to get your thoughts on support for Ukraine in this moment. But also, as commander-in-chief, if elected, how would you deal with Vladimir Putin, and would it be any different from what we're seeing from President Biden?” One of our questions touched on President Biden’s ban on liquefied natural gas exports, which called into question whether Democrats’ environmental activist class is more important to the White House than walking the walk on being tough on Russia. Muir’s question was too vague and open-ended to count. For the ugly, on education policy, Harris was not asked about thoughts about Title IX when it comes to the intersection of women’s sports and transgenderism. Nor was she asked about Title VI and how colleges have become a hotbed for anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic activity. On foreign policy and national security, both candidates were pressed from the left on what they would do to break the impasse between Israel and Hamas on ceasefire talks, even as Biden himself reportedly questions the wisdom of the premise after Hamas murdered six hostages. Davis also lobbed a softball Harris’s way when she declared, “Vice President Harris, he says you hate Israel,” but she was not asked about the administration’s pre-October 7 record that included things like removing the Houthis from the terrorist list despite the fact the Navy has been battling them in the Red Sea for the last 11 months. There was plenty of talk about rules and norms, but Harris managed to avoid being asked whether she would expand the Supreme Court or support eliminating the filibuster. However, she was asked, “One of your campaign's top lawyers responded, saying, ‘We won't let Donald Trump intimidate us. We won't let him suppress the vote.’ Is that what you believe he's trying to do here?” At the end, both candidates were asked what they would do to fight climate change, but despite constantly fighting with Trump, the moderators did not press Harris on the tensions between union manufacturers and environmentalists or whether she believes cooperating with China on climate change is more important than resisting Chinese power and influence.

Following what can safely be placed at the top of the worst presidential debates ever given the election interference by ABC News’s questioning and open liberal partisanship by moderators Linsey David and David Muir, Wednesday’s Good Morning America was bursting at the seams over Vice President Harris “confron[ting] Donald Trump” (along with Muir and Davis) and putting him “on defense” throughout the “fierce and fiery face-off.” In other words, we told you so about Muir and ABC. “Breaking overnight, their first debate. Kamala Harris confronts Donald Trump. Breaking overnight, the vice president and former president meet for the first time at the ABC News presidential debate,” co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos announced in a tease. After co-host Michael Strahan led off by touting Harris shaking Trump’s hand, Stephanopoulos gushed this was her “clearly signaling there that she wanted to take command, kicking off 90 minutes of confrontation” that had “Trump on defense for most of the night” and claimed polls overwhelmingly call Harris the winner. ABC was VERY proud of its #debate. ‘Good Morning America’ co-host George Stephanopoulos boasted Harris “clearly signal[ed]...she wanted to take command” and succeeded by putting “Trump on defense” and “polls say that voters think Harris won.” North Korean news lady impersonator… pic.twitter.com/GCGdwRYPqo — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2024 Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce was in rare form (and on the heels of doing it on both the pre- and post-debate shows), gushing about the “fierce and fiery face-off” with “Trump on defensive for much of the night” thanks to Harris “taking every chance...to get under his skin, goading Trump”. She also made sure to herald Davis and Muir playing more than just the job of moderators: ABC's Mary Bruce openly touting her network's debate co-moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis chosing to join Kamala Harris in debating Donald Trump. Here, she showed on abortion and Springfield, Ohio. She'd later tout Muir battling Trump on 2020. pic.twitter.com/exYYryC2sl — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2024 Bruce also complained Trump was the one who “[got] personal” (although Harris, among other lines, brought up claims of sexual misconduct against Trump) and forced to discuss “statements questioning Harris’ racial identity”. On the argument between Trump and Muir about 2020, Bruce waved the proverbial pom-poms to boast “Harris us[ed] the moment to call Trump unqualified.” Virulently anti-Trump correspondent Rachel Scott celebrated what many saw as pitfalls in Trump’s performance, bragging that Harris “definitely did” “get under [his] skin” to the point that “[h]is volume only getting louder and louder as the debate progressed.” Stephanopoulos returned to revel to longtime correspondent and three-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl that “Harris was engaged in a kind of psychological warfare.” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “I think one way to think about what was going on last night is Kamala Harris was engaged in a kind of psychological warfare.” Jonathan Karl: “Yeah and it began right from the moment the debate started. Even before it started when they walked onto… pic.twitter.com/thwi2ip8ZG — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2024   Karl obviously agreed that’s what happened and, like he did in the post-debate show, fawned over Harris’s handshake and excitedly opined on how poorly he thought Trump did: ABC's Jonathan Karl: “[H]e became increasingly rattled and angry, yelling a lot of his answers as Kamala Harris tried to provoke him, tried to get inside his head, hitting some key touch points, ridiculing his crowd size, talking about how he is saying he’s mocked by people… pic.twitter.com/Qvtmz82Zim — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2024 Chief global affairs anchor Martha Raddatz had an eye-roll of a zinger on foreign policy, claiming there’s “absolutely no evidence” Trump could have prevented the war in Ukraine and ended the war in Gaza, so he shouldn’t have argued he would have handled those differently. In the second half-hour, Stephanopoulos reiterated his admiration for Harris “tak[ing] command” and brought in Chris Christie and Donna Brazile to continue singing Harris’s praises and stacking the deck against Trump (to put this election to bed). Only near the end did Christie admit Harris wasn’t sterling and actually avoided scrutiny on policy (click “expand”): CHRISTIE: [I]t was incredibly typical performance on his part when he’s unprepared. Now, you know, I ran debate prep in 2016 and 2020. And it was always a wrestling match, George, to try to get him to focus, to try to get him to stay disciplined. And it really was like a boxing match between us in prep. It’s clear he didn’t have anybody who would smack him around during prep this time ‘cause he went out there and just did whatever the heck he wanted, straight from his instinct and his gut, which is to be angry and a grievance candidate. And the amazing thing was — for me is that it’s clear Vice President Harris spent a lot of time preparing. And she very deftly put in bait. And, every time she threw the bait out, he chased every rabbit down every hole, whether it was about rallies, whether it was about people eating pets in neighborhoods, and all these different crazy stories. And I — look, people — her goal last night for the people that she was talking to was to look like she belongs there. You know, she is a lesser known candidate than Donald Trump. And, so, she did it. She accomplished what she needed to accomplish and he helped her. (....) BRAZILE: [T]here was one person who showed up as the next president. And that was Kamala Harris. She had a solid performance, George. We knew that she had to go in there and introduce herself to the American people. She also had to lay out some fundamental issues and vision that she has for the country. But she owned the moment from that handshake. She didn’t allow Donald Trump to get under her skin. Instead, he took the bait. She was solid and — and basically talking to the American people. She wasn’t side tracked by his taunts or his rantings. And so, I think this gave the Vice President an opportunity to once again go out there and continue to tell hardworking Americans how she’s going to lower cost, protect the country and also ensure that every — everybody in this count feels that we belong here, that she can unite us, and that she can keep America strong again. (....) CHRISTIE: I think the more important thing is she’s got to own some of the mistakes in         the Biden administration and say this is the way I’m going to move on for it. She didn’t answer about Afghanistan last night. She didn’t answer about the border. And she got away with it because he was so unhinged. Now, if she he comes back with a more disciplined approach, she’s going to have to answer that. And, by the way — and I said this in The New York Times yesterday, there’s nothing wrong with admitting when mistakes were made. The American people understand that and they’ll respect you for it. Everyone who watched the withdrawal from Afghanistan knew it was a mistake the way it was done. Everyone who watches what’s going on in the border and what’s changed since they got tougher knows that the earlier approach was a mistake. She wasn’t in charge. It was Joe Biden who was making those decision. So, she should just say it was a mistake, I own it and I know I can do better. As for the Taylor Swift endorsement, it received a few giddy mentions (but not full segments like on CBS and NBC). Roberts swooned in a tease with Look What You Made Me Do playing in the background: “And overnight, Taylor Swift makes her presidential endorsement following the debate, with over 280 million Instagram followers.” Bruce tried to make it seem as though Swift decided based on ABC’s debate: Now, one voter who was swayed by what they saw, Taylor Swift, posting to her 283 million Instagram followers that she has seen enough and done enough research to make up her mind, endorsing Kamala Harris. And, during the Christie-Brazile segment, the latter closed by saying she’s “a Swiftie” and thus wanted to quote “one of Taylor Swift’s great songs”: “Donald Trump is going to have a hard time shaking off that debate performance. A hard time shaking it off.” Strahan was enthused, chuckling that “we saw what Donna did”, adding “we got you, Donna!” To see the relevant ABC transcript from September 11, click here.

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