ABC News Says Harris “Absolutely” Didn’t Receive Debate Questions In Advance Despite Rumors

Daily Report September 13,2024

ABC News denied that Vice President Kamala Harris was given questions in advance of her recent debate against former President Donald Trump.

“Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “Harris was not given any questions prior to the debate.”

Trump himself previously charged that Harris had gotten word of the debate questions in advance. I said, “She’s answered that question before,’” Trump said in a news appearance just hours after the debate.

/div>

Also, ABC noted that none of Harris’s staff was “privy to the questions asked by David Muir or take part in developing questions” in advance of Tuesday night’s event in Philadelphia. The rules of the debate stated explicitly that “no topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.”

Trump has called the debate “unfair” and “rigged,” while charging that Harris was provided with a leg up in his first argument of this election cycle before he may be held accountable only once.

After the debate, Trump complained on X that ABC and its moderators were “sloppy” and he called it a “three on one” situation.

Trump offered only a murmur of compromise: “It was a rigged deal, as I assumed it would be, because when you watched that and heard what they said, everything was in — correcting with her,” he argued.

Despite his gripes, ABC has stuck to their guns that no questions were given to anyone in advance and they abided by all the debate rules.