During a recent Fox News appearance, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton criticized ABC News for what many are calling the most biased presidential debate in American history. Harris wasn’t fact-checked at all, while former President Donald Trump was fact-checked and interrupted constantly.
Cotton zeroed in on Kamala Harris’ false claim that no U.S. troops are currently deployed in combat zones — a false claim that received zero pushback from ABC News moderators David Muir and LInsey Davis.
“ABC allowing Kamala Harris to say ‘no U.S. troops are in combat zones’ without any pushback or fact-checking is outrageous. This goes beyond bias–it’s a media company effectively joining the Harris campaign,” Cotton posted Tuesday on X.
ABC allowing Kamala Harris to say "no U.S. troops are in combat zones" without any pushback or fact-checking is outrageous.
This goes beyond bias–it's a media company effectively joining the Harris campaign.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) September 17, 2024
During the debate last week, Harris claimed, “There is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.”
Even ABC News’ own Martha Raddatz has acknowledged that Harris lied and wasn’t fact-checked.
“There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. All have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. We also have action in the Red Sea. Also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid,” she said.
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“I don’t know where those two moderators were fact-checking Kamala Harris with that lie… I guess they were busy wrongly fact-checking President Trump,” Cotton told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures.
Cotton said Harris’ comment likely came as a “surprise to the thousands of troops we still have in places like Iraq and Syria that are getting repeatedly hit by mortars and drones by Iranian-backed terrorists because Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have appeased and emboldened by the Ayatollahs for four years.”
“It’s just one more example of why she’s a weak, failed San Francisco liberal who is not up to the job of being our commander-in-chief,” he said.
