*A CNN panel became heated on Wednesday when a Democratic guest suggested that the ABC News presidential debate moderators were “harsher” on Donald Trump than on Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Trump-Harris debate sparked mixed reactions, with some viewers praising the candidates’ performances while others voiced concerns over the moderation. Trump supporters felt that moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were overly aggressive and unfairly targeted the former president with tough questions while giving Harris more favorable treatment.
“I will say this when I rewatched it, I will give you guys that some of the questions that they asked and came back at the president with were harsher. More than one thing can be true at the same time,” Nina Turner, a former Democratic state senator from Ohio, said, FOX News reports.
Turner pointed to moments when the moderators did not correct false claims made by Harris about Trump’s connection to Project 2025, or her stance on fracking.
“The fact about her ethnicity question, I think that is why you keep bringing that up, you know, pressing [Trump] on that Project 2025. Look, the man said he has nothing to do with it. We can debate whether he has something to do with it or not,” Turner said.
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“On the fracking question, to the vice president, and this is me as a liberator, she in 2019, when she was running, she said, ‘Fracking, we’re going to do away with it.’ You can’t say you’re going to do away with it — they had her dead to right on that. What you can say as a candidate is that I’m not in 2019, I’m not in 2020. And you know what, I’ve changed my mind,” Turner continued.
Phillip pushed back again and said Harris reversed her position on fracking in 2020. Former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza and political commentator Scott Jennings chimed in and said that wasn’t true.
“It’s a lie,” Lanza said.
Turner noted that while the moderators were seemingly less favorable of Trump, he “lost” the debate.
“President Donald J. Trump lost,” Turner said. “He lost. He was not prepared. He thought he was going to bulldoze his way in.”
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