ABC has denied that Vice President Kamala Harris was given advance notice of the questions she would be asked ahead of her debate with former President Donald Trump.
“Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Beast.
“Harris was not given any questions to ask prior to the debate.”
Harris' aides also had not been in contact with debate moderators David Muir and Lindsay Davis ahead of Tuesday night's debate in Philadelphia, the outlet added.
The denial came after Trump, who branded the debate “unfair” and “rigged”, suggested Ms Harris may have been told in advance what questions to expect.
“I watched her and I said, 'She seems so used to the questions,'” he said on Fox News' “Fox and Friends” a few hours after the debate.
Ahead of the debate, ABC's debate rules stated that “no topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.”
The announcement comes after the 45th president and his campaign staff repeatedly alleged that his Democratic rivals were given an unfair advantage in the first, and likely only, presidential debate earlier this week.
Trump then quickly blasted ABC and its hosts for repeatedly fact-checking and disproving statements during the forum, claiming it was a “three-on-one” affair.
“As I expected, this was a fraudulent transaction, because the fact that they were correcting everything but not her, I would say so,” he said.
“It was three against one. I don't mind that. I've been in worse situations before, but nothing this obvious,” he said of the emcee.
Trump was fact-checked by the moderator at least five times during the televised event.
Harris, meanwhile, was allowed to speak uninterrupted throughout the 90-minute debate.
