{"id":2343078,"date":"2024-09-18T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-demands-pre-debate-discussions-between-abc-news-and-harris-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:39:59","slug":"gop-senator-demands-pre-debate-discussions-between-abc-news-and-harris-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-demands-pre-debate-discussions-between-abc-news-and-harris-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator demands pre-debate discussions between ABC News and Harris &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-senator-demands-pre-debate-discussions-between-abc-news-and-harris-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2343078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has made a formal request\u2063 to ABC News, demanding \u2064transparency regarding its\u200b interactions with Vice President\u200c Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign\u200b before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-quickly-turns-desantis-debate-comment-into-a-campaign-ad\/\" title=\"Biden swiftly transforms DeSantis debate remark into campaign ad.\">recent presidential debate<\/a>. In\u200c his letter, Marshall noted\u2063 allegations of bias during \u200cthe debate, specifically pointing out that Donald\u2064 Trump was \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">fact-checked<\/a> several times while\u200d Harris was not. He expressed concern that the debate, moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis, exhibited a &#8220;blatant partiality&#8221; in favor of Harris,\u200b which was apparent to the 67 million viewers.\u2063 Marshall&#8217;s request includes the release of all communications and records between ABC News and Harris&#8217;s \u200bcampaign, as well as internal texts \u2062and emails from ABC employees to identify any potential biases displayed before the debate. He argued that the \u200cAmerican public deserves accountability and transparency from\u200b mainstream media regarding any coordination \u200bwith political \u2063campaigns. \u2064The controversy has been amplified by contributions from ABC&#8217;s parent company, The Walt Disney Company, to Harris&#8217;s political endeavors.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">GOP senator demands pre-debate discussions between ABC News and Harris<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1761888\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/sen-roger-marshall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Roger Marshall<\/a> (R-KS) has issued a letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abc-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ABC News<\/a> demanding it reveal any communication it had with Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a>&lsquo;s campaign ahead of last week&rsquo;s presidential debate that held &ldquo;blatant partiality.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Marshall&rsquo;s letter comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3150276\/abc-news-david-muir-linsey-davis-bad-comedy-debate-moderators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>many Republicans criticized ABC News&rsquo;s handling of the debate<\/a> between former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> and Harris, with the Kansas senator citing how Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-deceptively-says-us-was-losing-jobs-under-trump-before-he-came-to-office\/\" title=\"Biden falsely claims US lost jobs under Trump prior to his presidency.\">fact-checked multiple times<\/a> while Harris was not. The letter stated that the 67 million viewers witnessed the network, along with debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, engage in &ldquo;a biased agenda&rdquo; against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For these reasons, I demand that you make public all correspondence, records, and potential coordination between the Harris campaign and ABC News ahead of the September 10th ABC debate,&rdquo; the letter read. &ldquo;I also request you publish all internal ABC News texts and emails, both between ABC employees themselves and with the Harris campaign, to elucidate any potential biases that ABC News employees may have demonstrated prior to the debate between President Trump and Vice President Harris.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On debate night, it became abundantly clear that ABC News had a biased agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The American people deserve transparency &amp; accountability from the mainstream media on whether <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> had coordinated or worked in cooperation with the Harris Campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CvEoKrVdEC\">pic.twitter.com\/CvEoKrVdEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogerMarshallMD\/status\/1836466365865103758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The letter also cites how Dana Walden, co-chairwoman of ABC News&rsquo;s parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/disney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>The Walt Disney Company<\/a>, has been donating money to Harris&rsquo;s political campaigns since at least 2003. It was also noted that Harris has referred to Walden as an &ldquo;extraordinary friend.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marshall stated Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3154195\/harris-campaign-abc-news-target-gop-senators-inquiry-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>he would investigate claims<\/a> that ABC News was biased toward Trump in its debate. The senator has given the network a deadline of Sept. 27 to respond with the requested information.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the criticism of ABC News&rsquo;s handling of the debate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3152769\/trump-declares-not-be-third-debate-days-contest-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Trump has dismissed doing another debate between him and Harris<\/a>. He argued the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> has asked for another debate because &ldquo;I won,&rdquo; and Harris wants a rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Since the debate, Muir&rsquo;s <em>ABC World News Tonight<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3157552\/abc-david-muir-hit-ratings-after-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ratings have fallen by 12%<\/a>, with an average of 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, compared to an average of 7.6 million before the debate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1761888\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1761888\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Senator Roger Marshall from Kansas has sent a letter to ABC News requesting that the network disclose any communications it had with Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign prior to last week&#8217;s presidential debate, which he claims exhibited &#8220;blatant partiality.&#8221; This request follows criticism from several Republicans regarding ABC News&#8217;s management of the debate between former President Donald Trump and Harris. Marshall pointed out that Trump was fact-checked multiple times while Harris was not, asserting that the 67 million viewers observed a &#8220;biased agenda&#8221; from both the network and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis against Trump. In his letter, he demanded transparency by asking for all correspondence, records, and any potential coordination between ABC News and the Harris campaign leading up to the September 10th debate. He also requested access to internal texts and emails within ABC News related to this matter in order to clarify any biases shown by its employees before the debate. On debate night, it became evident that there was a biased agenda at play. Marshall emphasized that Americans deserve transparency regarding whether ABC coordinated with Harris\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Marshall noted that Dana Walden, co-chairwoman of The Walt Disney Company (ABC News&#8217;s parent company), has been contributing financially to Harris\u2019s political campaigns since at least 2003. He mentioned that Harris has referred to Walden as an \u201cextraordinary friend.\u201d The senator announced on Friday his intention to investigate allegations of bias against Trump during the debate and set a deadline of September 27 for ABC News to provide the requested information.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these criticisms directed at ABC News&#8217;s handling of the event, Trump has dismissed participating in another debate with Harris, claiming she is seeking a rematch because \u201cI won.\u201d Following the debate, ratings for Muir\u2019s program &#8220;ABC World News Tonight&#8221; dropped by 12%, averaging 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday through Friday compared to an average of 7.6 million prior to the event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2343079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ABC-News-Debate-1-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[36059,6203,4021,41182,4012],"class_list":["post-2343078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-abc-news","tag-gop","tag-harris","tag-pre-debate-discussions","tag-senator"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ABC-News-Debate-1-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}