On Friday, Fox News host Harris Faulkner criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for making statements during Tuesday’s debate with former President Donald Trump that Faulkner claimed were so blatant she could fact-check them from memory.
Faulkner also took aim at ABC News anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis, who faced criticism for frequently interrupting Trump and providing “fact checks” during the debate. Faulkner accused the moderators of failing to fact-check Harris when she misrepresented Trump’s views on in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
“When you switch to a broadcast network, they have a self-imposed journalistic integrity standard that they’re trying to uphold because they’re on the broadcast airwaves, they need to fact check more than I think something like the debate commission has typically done,” Brad Howard, a former Democratic aide on Capitol Hill, claimed.
“Why didn’t they do it for her?” Faulkner responded, with Howard claiming that Muir asked Harris about her changes in position on gun control and hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.”
Harris has reportedly distanced herself from the left-wing positions she held during her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. This shift has primarily been communicated through statements by her campaign aides to reporters.
“The reality is that Trump is just known for telling the easy to dismiss and easy to prove false statements,” Howard claimed.
Harris Faulkner Tells Dem She 'Didn't Even Need Google' To Know Kamala Harris Lied During Debate pic.twitter.com/XKOw5DMNOq
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“Well, did you see the lies she told about IVF?” Faulkner responded. “That was so easily knowable, you could have fact checked it just in your memory, you didn’t even need Google.”
During the debate, Vice President Kamala Harris made several misstatements about issues such as abortion and Project 2025, according to Check Your Fact. However, ABC News anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis did not interrupt or fact-check her during the debate.
