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The 10 Harris Lies Moderators Let Slide at the ABC Debate

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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -29% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Pro-life advocates blame confusion created by the abortion industry with causing doctors to deny women treatment.
64% : Pro-life advocates Gianna Jessen and Melissa Ohden survived botched abortions.
48% : Harris asserted that Trump would preside over the installation of a Big Brother-style surveillance of every pregnancy in America.
42% : The [then-]Biden campaign promptly wrenched the president's remarks out of context to create a digital campaign ad titled 'Bloodbath,' which recycles other erroneous statements, such as falsely claiming Trump praised rioters at the Charlottesville and Jan. 6 D.C. riots.
41% : You got a lot of bad people in the other group, too."Even Snopes.com ran an article titled, "No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People.'
40% : This statement had been repeated at the Democratic National Convention, and the Harris-Walz campaign has claimed in TV spots that Trump has endorsed "requiring the government to monitor women's pregnancies.
39% : "It's the vote of the people now," Trump said at the debate.
38% : Harris repeated misinformation that, as president, Trump praised neo-Nazis and white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
36% : "Trump used the economic term "bloodbath" while contrasting his tariff policy with the Biden-Harris administration's pro-China electric vehicle policy during a March rally near Dayton, Ohio.
30% : The plan's authors have acknowledged Trump had nothing to do with their conservative vision for the next four years.
27% : Harris continually attempted to tie Trump to Project 2025, a project of The Heritage Foundation, which the former president has repeatedly disparaged.
26% : Unlike numerous questions in which the moderators demanded an answer of Trump, Muir asked no follow-up of Harris.
25% : "Trump also pointed out the presence of Antifa protesters there to cheer on the tearing down of America's historical monuments, who -- unlike those opposed to tearing down U.S. history, did not have a permit to meet.
23% : FactCheck.org noted curtly, "Trump has not made such a proposal."
23% : Trump removed the Republican Party platform's historic commitment to passing a Human Life Amendment, aspirational as it was, and has repeatedly said he opposes any further national legislation on the issue.
23% : Trump replied, "I have nothing to do with Project 2025," referring to its commonsense conservative proposals as "out there.""I haven't read it.
18% : In reality, Trump said, "You had some very bad people in that group.
16% : But Trump promptly stated, "And I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.
16% : "Harris attempted to raise fears that Trump would break the law with impunity in a second term.
16% : "The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the former president would essentially be immune from any misconduct if he were to enter the White House again," said Harris, while claiming Trump would weaponize government against his political enemies in a second term.
8% : THE WASHINGTON STAND -- Presidential debates have often been compared to professional wrestling matches, but the ABC News debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris more closely resembled a handicap match, with Trump taking on three opponents at once: Harris and both moderators.
8% : The issue of infanticide cropped up during the debate, as Trump cited comments made by a former Virginia governor about allowing babies born alive during birth to die -- a position Trump called "execution after birth."

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