ABC's matter-of-fact moderators built factual guardrails around Trump - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump even chose Muir to conduct his first major TV interview after taking office in 2017.
50% : "The people on television say, 'My dog was taken and used for food,' " Trump said.
50% : But they signaled a shift -- for an evening, at least -- in the balance of power between Trump and the many journalists who have struggled, or stopped trying, to construct factual guardrails around the bombardment of baseless claims that he regularly unleashes on live TV.Using calm and authoritative tones, Muir and Davis offered a model for real-time fact-checking that has been absent from many recent presidential debates.
47% : But Trump and his campaign also accepted ABC's ground rules for the debate and were satisfied with the choice of moderators.
46% : After the broadcast ended, Trump himself touted a slogan that had quickly picked up steam on the political right.
32% : Trump retorted.
23% : In the buildup to Tuesday, Trump had assailed ABC News as "the worst" and "the nastiest," and brought up his pending lawsuit that claims one of the network's anchors, George Stephanopoulos, harmed his reputation.
10% : But Trump delivered, by one count, more than two dozen falsehoods over the course of the evening, while Harris's factually questionable remarks were more misleading than flagrantly untrue.

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