Aides to President Joe Biden are reportedly furious that CNN will not fact-check former President Donald Trump live during Thursday’s debate.
The debate “is not an ideal venue for a live fact-check of Trump,” said CNN political director David Chalian. The New York Times on monday.
After Chalian Said The Associated Press said debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, fierce critics of Trump, “need to acknowledge or set the record” about “flagrant” errors by both candidates, but insisted Tapper and Bash “are not here to participate in this debate.”
Chalian’s comments prompted “anxious calls and emails” from Democratic Party officials “trying to figure out what his comments meant Thursday night,” Politico’s West Wing reported. report Tuesday.
Biden aides seem to believe the lack of live fact-checking “illustrates a major failure of the press over the last few years.”
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“Democrats and Biden’s allies believe they have an obligation to work harder and not stick to maintaining the appearance of impartiality when one side is spreading more lies than the other,” The West Wing reported.
The debate comes at a critical time for CNN, which is on track to experience its lowest prime-time ratings month since 1991. The New York Times reportAccording to Nielsen ratings, the show averaged fewer than 100,000 viewers per night among adults ages 25 to 54.
While the Biden campaign is trying to get the debate judges to work, CNN on Monday defended its co-hosts from criticism after they were accused of bias against Trump. “Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are respected veteran journalists who have covered politics for more than 50 years combined,” CNN said in a statement.
This is just one of many pranks and sleaze that Tapper and Dana Bash have up to. https://t.co/VwxKCNTsRM
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The statement came after the Trump campaign complained to CNN for abruptly cutting off an interview with Trump campaign national press secretary Caroline Leavitt, a former MSNBC host who was abruptly removed from CNN. Ended The exchange came as Leavitt highlighted CNN’s Jake Tapper’s long history of criticizing Trump.
Tapper will co-moderate the first presidential debate on Thursday with Dana Bash, both of whom have been critical of Trump.
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