A former advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton has called on ABC News to conduct an internal investigation into whether there was an effort to rig Tuesday’s presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mark Penn, a pollster and senior adviser for the Clintons from 1995-2008 and co-chair of the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, told Just The News host John Solomon that “suspicion is really quite high” due to the blatantly one-sided “fact checking” interruptions from hosts David Muir and Linsey Davis.
The moderators interrupted the former president with several fact checks — some of which ended up being patently false — while allowing Vice President Harris to get away with multiple lies without interruption.
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“I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don’t know how much of this was planned in advance,” Penn told Just The News. “I don’t know what they told the Harris campaign.”
The former Clinton ally’s observations mirror those of thousands of social media users, who have insinuated that Harris was given questions in advance due to her numerous canned responses. A number