Liberals praise ABC debate moderators, taunt Trump for complaining about bias: 'You've lost'
Liberals praised the ABC News presidential debate moderators, Linsey Davis and David Muir, after the debate and called out former President Trump for his criticism of the moderators, suggesting that it meant he lost the debate.
"If you're showing up in the spin room, you've lost. If you're blaming the moderators, you've lost," Politico's Jonathan Lemire said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris debated on Tuesday night, and the vice president was widely considered to be the winner. Trump entered the spin room after the debate and spoke to reporters, telling several that he believed he had a great night.
Both moderators fact-checked Trump multiple times during the debate and failed to fact-check Harris at all.
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NBC News' Dasha Burns said Wednesday that Trump's immediate reaction to the debate was telling.
"The former president going to the spin room, which, traditionally in politics, you don’t do unless you feel like you didn't well enough in the debate. He's now saying, after claiming he’s willing to do another debate, now saying maybe not so much. And he and his team have spent a lot of the day and a lot of last night going after the moderators, going after the network, rather than talking about their candidate’s performance, which I think is pretty telling," she told MSNBC's José Díaz-Balart.
CNN's Abby Phillip praised the fact-checking by Muir and Davis.
Former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Davis and Muir did an "excellent job."
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Former Biden-Harris campaign adviser Alencia Johnson told CNN's Jim