In the days following the presidential debate on ABC News, moderator David Muir has seen the ratings on his program drop significantly. It’s no surprise, considering the fact that Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis spent most of their time arguing with Trump while repeatedly giving Kamala Harris a pass.
People on the right are sick and tired of Democrat activists play-acting at being journalists.
FOX News reports:
ABC’s David Muir sees newscast ratings decline after controversial debate performanceABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir may have driven away some viewers after the Disney-owned network irked conservatives during last week’s presidential debate.Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times without ever correcting Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting a plethora of conservatives to suggest the debate wasn’t fair. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America even called for a correction after Davis made an abortion claim made during the debate during one of the fact-checks on Trump that the group said was “100% inaccurate.”Muir’s “World News Tonight” averaged 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the three episodes following the debate, after averaging 7.6 million in 2024 leading up to the debate.The 12% drop in viewers for “World News Tonight” is more significant than slight declines “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” saw when comparing the three episodes following ABC’s debate to the year-to-date totals, although Muir’s newscast remained the No. 1 broadcast evening newscast.While it’s unclear if Trump supporters have tuned out ABC’s newscast on the heels of the debate, the former president has blasted it as “one-sided.” Trump told Fox News that he believed Harris should have been fact-checked on a variety of claims.
Muir has dismissed criticism from Trump and others about the debate as ‘noise.’
From the Daily Beast, via Yahoo News:
ABC Anchor David Muir: Trump’s Debate Whining is ‘Noise’ABC anchor David Muir has dismissed the criticism he received after the Donald Trump/Kamala Harris TV debate of last week as “noise.”Muir opted not to engage with the criticism leveled by Trump during a Monday appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark, calling the second assassination attempt on the former president “horrific,” while also suggesting people “lower the temperature” after Sunday’s incident.Trump decried the debate as “THREE ON ONE” and vowed to not participate in a second one, and he specifically targeted Muir—once an anchor he doted over—over his performance. “His hair’s not as good as it used to be,” Trump told a rally audience last week.“All of the noise that you hear afterward about you know, ‘Which candidate won the debate, did the moderators win or lose?’” Muir said on Kelly and Mark. “That’s just noise.”
The Outnumbered show on FOX News discussed this issue yesterday. Watch:
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