Kayleigh McEnany: ABC's moderators were 'partisan activists'

HARF, AND FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER UTAH CONGRESSMAN, JASON CHAFFETZ. WE BEGIN WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS. THE DEBATE, SPARKING INTENSE BACKLASH OVER HOW THE MODERATORS APPEARED TO TEAM UP WITH HARRIS TO TAKE ON TRUMPED APPEARED THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE FACT-CHECK FOR KAMALA HARRIS, ALL AS THE ABC MODERATORS TARGETED TRUMPED WITH TOUGHER QUESTIONS, MORE FOLLOW-UPS, AND NONSTOP CORRECTIONS, CHALLENGING HIM IN REAL TIME ON HIS STATEMENTS FROM ABORTION TO CRIME. >> THERE IS NO STATE WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO KILL A BABY AFTERWARDS BORN. >> YOU BRING UP SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. ABC NEWS DID REACH UP TO THE CITY MANAGER. HE TOLD US THERE HAD BEEN NO CREDIBLE REPORTS IN SPECIFIC CLAIMS OF PETS BEING HARMED. AS YOU KNOW, THE FBI SAYS OVERALL, VIOLENT CRIME IS COMING DOWN IN THIS COUNTRY. LEADING UP TO THIS DEBATE, YOU'VE SAID "YOU LOST BY A WHISKER," THAT YOU "DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT," THAT YOU "CAME UP A LITTLE BIT SHORT." >> I SAID THAT SARCASTICALLY. >> I WATCH THE VIDEO, DID NOT DETECT THE SARCASM, "LOST BY WHISKER." >> I WAS NO RESPONSE BEFORE SECURITY: NANCY PELOSI WAS RESPONSIBLE PURE AND SHE DIDN'T DO HER JOB. >> THE QUESTION WAS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT NOT FORMER SPEAKER PELOSI. VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, YOU HEARD HIM SAY THAT. HE STILL BELIEVES HE DID NOT LOSE THE ELECTION. >> LAST NIGHT, ABC HAD A CHOICE. THEY COULD BE A CREDIBLE, SOLID, PROBING, FAIR DEBATE MODERATORS OR THEY COULD BE PARTISAN ACTIVISTS, AND THEY CHOSE THE LATTER. I SAT THERE WATCHING THIS DEBATE WONDERING "WHERE IS THE QUESTION ABOUT THE TIE-BREAKING VOTE FOR KAMALA ON INFLATION, THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN" GIMMICK I SAT THERE THINKING "WHAT ABOUT TAXPAYER-FUNDED GENDER TRANSITION SURGERIES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS" GIMMICK IT DIDN'T EXIST. A VISUAL AID. WHERE'S HER QUESTION ABOUT THE RUNNING MATE -- ABORTIONS BEING LEFT TO DIE BEFORE CHANGING THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. WE WILL SCROLL THIS AS WELL. WHERE THE QUESTIONS ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE POLICIES, THESE RADICAL POLICIES. I BELIEVE ONE OR TWO WERE MENTIONED CASUALLY. NONE OF HARRIS' POLICIES WERE MENTIONED. >> NOT BY THE MODERATORS. DONALD TRUMP WAS BRINGING UP THINGS. HE WAS THE ONE, AND THEN HE WAS FACT-CHECKED FOR BRINGING UP ITEMS ABOUT THIS, PARTICULARLY WITH THE SUBJECT OF ABORTION. WHEN YOU WATCH, WAS ONE OF HIS STRONGEST MOMENTS AND HE FILLED HIS ENTIRE TIME. HE WAS PREPARED FOR THAT QUESTION, SO ON AND SO FORTH. SHE HITS HIM WITH IVF. SHE DOES NOT GET FACT-CHECK FOR NOT KNOWING THAT HE TALKS ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME. THE MODERATORS AGAIN ARE NOT EVEN FOLLOWING UP AND SAYING "MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, WHY DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT? THAT'S BEEN OUT THERE." HITS THE FORMER PRESIDENT INCORRECTLY." THEY DIDN'T DO THAT. THEY DID THE FACT-CHECKING ABOUT TRUMP. "YOU KNOW THAT HE JUST SAID THIS, KAMALA HARRIS." AT THE END OF THE DAY, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS MOVES THE NEEDLE FOR PEOPLE, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT HER. ONE OF MY GUESTS ON "VOTERS VOICES" SAID IT BEST LAST HOUR. TRUMP WHAT I'VE DONE WELL FOR INSULT TO MOVE HIS CLOSING ARGUMENT TO EVERY SEGMENT OF THAT DEBATE. AS MUCH AS HE HAD THE BORDER WHICH IS INTENSELY IMPORTANT WITH PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY -- WE KNOW THAT FROM PULLING AND TALKING WITH HIM, AS I DO. IT WOULD'VE HELPED FOR HIM TO SAY "WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE THIS IN THREE AND HALF YEARS" GIMMICK LITERALLY WITH EVERY SINGLE MOMENT HE COULD HAVE DONE THAT. HE HAD TIME TO BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T DO FOLLOW-UPS WITH HER. >> FOLLOW-UPS, SOME WERE NECESSARY. WE PUT TOGETHER THE TALL TALES OF KAMALA HARRIS FOR YOU. LET'S TAKE A LISTEN TO THIS. >> DETAILED AND DANGEROUS PLAN CALLED PROJECT 2025. COUPLES WHO PRAY AND DREAM OF HAVING A FAMILY ARE BEING DENIED IVF TREATMENTS. OF DONALD TRUMP WERE TO BE REELECTED, HE WILL SIGN A NATIONAL ABORTION BAN. LESSER NUMBER CHARLOTTESVILLE, WHERE THERE WAS A MOB OF PEOPLE CARRYING TIKI TORCHES, SPEWING ANTI-SEMITIC HATE. WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT THEN AT THE TIME SAY? THERE WERE FIVE PEOPLE ON EACH SIDE. ON THAT DAY, 140 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WERE INJURED, SOME DIED. DONALD TRUMP, THE CANDIDATES, HAS SAID IN THIS ELECTION THERE WILL BE A BLOODBATH IF THIS, THE OUTCOME OF THIS ELECTION, IS NOT TO HIS LIKING. >> YOU JUST HEARD CHARLOTTESVILLE AND BLOODBATH. HE WOULD THINK DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS HOPPED UP ON FACT-CHECKING CAFFEINE WOULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS UP, LEFT WING SNOPES FACT-CHECK. "WE BELIEVE IN FACTS SO LET'S BRING UP THE FACTS." TRUMP DID NOT CALL NEO-NAZIS AND WHITES A PREMISE IT'S VERY FINE PEOPLE. POLITIFACT. JOE BIDEN CLAIMED TRUMP SAID THERE BE A BLOODBATH IF HE WERE ELECTED, WERE NOT ELECTED. TRUMP WAS DISCUSSING THE AUTO INDUSTRY. WHY WOULD THEY NOT FACT-CHECK HER ON THIS? >> I WILL ANSWER THAT QUESTION BY SAYING I WAS ON WITH MY FRIEND MARTI'S AND LAST NIGHT WHO IS A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN. HEAT MADE THE SAME POINTS ABOUT ABC. WHAT HE SAID IS "WE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE REFS, WE ARE LOSING CLOSE WAS. SHOULD THERE BEEN MORE FACT CHECKS OF KAMALA HARRIS? SURE. DONALD TRUMP GOT MORE THAN 10 MINUTES TO SPEAK LAST NIGHT, SO HE WAS GIVEN A LOT MORE TIME TO SPEAK BY THE NUMBERS, AND HE HAD OPPORTUNITIES TO USE THAT TIME HOWEVER HE WANTED. THE CHALLENGE WAS, HE USED THAT TIME TO TAKE EVERY BAIT KAMALA HARRIS PUT IN FRONT OF HIM. HE SPEWED A LIE AFTER AFTER LIE AFTER LIE, AND I'M GLAD THAT THE MODERATORS DID FACT-CHECK SOME OF THEM. I THINK THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LAST NIGHT SAW -- SETTING ASIDE WHAT ABC DID OR DIDN'T DO -- I THINK THEY SAW TWO VERY DIFFERENT CANDIDATES, AND A DONALD TRUMP WHO WHEN PUT UNDER PRESSURE FROM KAMALA HARRIS -- AND NOT JOE BIDEN, THIS IS IN JUNE 25TH WHEN WE WERE ON THIS COUCH THAT AFTER TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE. HE WAS PUT ON THE SPOT. HE LIED AND LIED. >> BUT WASN'T TRUTHFUL FOR HER TO BRING UP THE CHARLOTTESVILLE HOAX, BLOODBATH HOAX? >> I'M GOING TO SAY, I DON'T THINK THOSE ARE HOAXES. I HAVE LIVED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. I WAS NOT THERE THAN -- >> BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID. SPEAK I WATCH THAT OVER AND OVER. IT'S NOT JUST THAT, KAYLEIGH: SO MANY TIMES HE HAS WINKED AND NODDED TO WHITES OF PREMISES THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. IT'S NOT ANY BACK TO HIM. -- IT'S NOT A VACUUM. HE HAS TOLD THE CROWD NOISE HE SUPPORTS WHAT THEY DO, HE IS DYING WITH THEIR LEADER. THIS IS NOT IN A VACUUM. >> ANNOUNCED WHITE SUPREMACY -- >> REPEATEDLY. IF WE ARE TALKING TO POLITICS AND WEATHER, TY HARRIS' POINT, WE ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE, WE ARE SITTING HERE TALKING ABOUT HOW CLOSE DONALD TRUMP AS TO WHAT'S A PHARMACIST. >> NO, YOU ARE. THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TODAY. NOTING WHETHER PEOPLE ARE EATING CATS AND -- >> HERE IS A FACT. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT: WHAT'S A PREMISE HE AND CAT EATING. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE I BELIEVE WANTED TO SEE -- >> THAT'S NOT WITH A FOCUS GROUP SHOWED. >> HOW KAMALA HARRIS WOULD LOWER HOUSING COSTS, SECURE THE BORDER, AND MAKE TWO WARS THAT WERE CREATED ON HER WATCH. THEY WEREN'T THINKING ABOUT CATS AND WHITES A PREMISE HE. THEY GOT NO ANSWER FROM KAMALA HARRIS. -- ON THE WHITE SUPREMACY. THEY GOT NO ANSWER ON THAT. >> THE ABC MODERATORS AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WAS ON FULL DISPLAY LAST NIGHT. IT DID AMERICAN NO FAVORS AND DID NOT DO FORMER PRESIDENT TOM TRUMP ANY TYPE OF NEUTRAL OR RESPECTFUL PLATFORM. -- I WILL SAY THAT IT'S UNSURPRISING. THE UNFORTUNATE ASPECT OF IT WAS THE LOST OPPORTUNITIES AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES ON THE PRESIDENT'S PART TO STEP IN THAT GAP, TO UNFORTUNATELY LIFT THE WEIGHT THAT WE CAN'T DEPEND ON THE MEDIA AND MODERATORS TO DO. WHAT I SAW LAST NIGHT WAS A VERY POLISHED PACKAGE OF LIES ON ONE HAND, AND THEN A MORE EMPHATIC, EARNEST DELIVERY OF THE TRUTH ON THE OTHER. AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF YOU ARE VOTING ON PERSONALITIES, THAT MIGHT HAVE MOVED THE NEEDLE, BUT IF YOU ARE VOTING ON POLICIES -- AND I PRAY TO GOD EVERY AMERICAN IS -- THAT I HOPE YOU LOOK BENEATH THE VENEER OF SOMEONE WHO MEMORIZED SCRIPTS AND SOMEONE WHO WAS COACHED PERFECTLY, AND SOMEONE WHO SOMEHOW ABSORB A LOT OF INFORMATION WE HAVEN'T EVER SEEN COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTH FOR QUITE SOME TIME OR EVER -- AND THAT CAN LOOK BEYOND THAT TO SEE WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN UPON A VOTE THAT LEADS ONE OF THEM TO BE IN THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S SEAT. THAT'S WHAT TERRIFIED ME, THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SWAYED BY THE POLISHED AIDED BY THE ABC MODERATORS. >> AND THEY'RE ALREADY VOTING IN SOME BATTLEGROUND STATES. >> PENNSYLVANIA. >> AND IF YOU ARE ILLEGAL YOU ARE VOTING -- >> IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JUST POISE, KAMALA HARRIS DID EXCEED EXPECTATIONS PROBABLY, BUT I ALSO FIND HER TO BE A TOTAL FAKE. SHE DOES NOT STAND -- SHE SAYS "MY PRINTABLE HAVEN'T CHANGED?" REALLY? WHY WASN'T SHE PRESSED? WHY WASN'T THERE A FOLLOW-UP FROM THOSE SO-CALLED MODERATORS? THEY WERE NOT MODERATORS. THAT IS TOO GENEROUS. >> ACTIVISTS. >> THE BETTER QUESTION -- THE QUESTION WAS "ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN FOUR YEARS AGO?" NOTHING TO DO WITH SOLVING AMERICA PROBLEMS. DON'T THINK SHE WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME ON FACT-CHECKING IF PEOPLE WANT TO DO THIS. WHEN SHE TOUTS HER PLAN FOR INFLATION -- I DEFY YOU, GO LOOK! THERE IS NO PLAN. THERE IS NO ACTUAL PLAN TO DO THIS. I DON'T THINK SHE CAN DEFINE INFLATION LET ALONE SOLVE THE PROBLEM. VOTERS ARE GOING TO LOOK BACK AT THIS AND SAY "SHE HAD A DECENT" -- BUT WHAT WILL SHE DO TO HELP THE PRICE OF GAS, INFLATION? HOW WILL MY KIDS AFFORD A MORTGAGE AND GET TO A HOME? TO THAT END, I DON'T THINK SHE DID ANYTHING. I THINK DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO BE DANCING IN THE HALLS BECAUSE THEY ARE HAPPY BECAUSE IT WASN'T ABYSMAL AS JOE BIDEN WAS, BUT THAT IS AN ABSOLUTE FLOOR. DOES SHE HAVE SOLUTIONS? TO WHICH SHE CAN DO WITH THINGS OVERSEAS? I DON'T BUY IT. I DON'T THINK AMERICA IS EITHER. >> I WANTED TO FACT-CHECK ONE THING. IT WAS 41 MINUTES TO 36. >> 43 TO 36. >> I'M READING 41 BUT THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN UPDATED. THERE'S NINE DIFFERENT STORIES. >> TRUMP WAS GIVEN MORE OPPORTUNITY FROM THE MODERATORS IN PART BECAUSE THERE WERE FACT-CHECKING HIM IN REAL TIME. >> NEITHER ONE OF THOSE SHOWS A TEN MINUTE DIFFERENTIAL. THAT'S MY POINT. >> NO FACT CHECKS FOR KAMALA HARRIS PICK WE SAW

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