ABC News anchor David Muir has suffered a massive drop in the ratings for his show after his recent presidential debate moderating performance.
Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis provoked a backlash over their biased handling of the debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
During that debate, which is likely to be the only matchup between the 2024 nominees, Muir and Davis expressed a severe anti-Trump bias.
Many described the debate as “three Democrats against Trump.”
Muir and Davis allowed Harris to push debunked talking points and verifiably false information.
Meanwhile, they repeatedly “fact-checked” Trump even though, in a few cases, their “fact-checks” were not accurate.
Harris was not “fact-checked” once and was given a free pass to lie with impunity.
The one-sided performance has now led to whistleblowers coming forward to allege that the debate was rigged against Trump, with Harris being given the questions for the night in advance.
Since the debate, Muir has seen a significant drop in ratings for his nightly news broadcast, “World News Tonight.”
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week Muir’s “World News Tonight” averaged 6.7 million viewers, according to a report from the New York Post.
During those three days immediately following the debate, the show saw a 12% drop in viewership from the 7.6 million viewers Muir averaged prior to the debate this year.
The report noted that both the “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” also saw a slight drop in ratings over those same three nights.
However, the drop for ABC was more pronounced.
Muir did retain his spot at the top of the ratings, despite the drop-off.
In the week since the debate, critics have called out ABC over the obvious bias displayed by both moderators during the broadcast.
Most are noting that in addition to Muir and Davis only fact-checking Trump, they also only pressed him with follow-up questions.
Trump has also complained on several occasions about how unfair the setup was.
He argues that throughout most of the event, it had been “one against three.”
“It was so one-sided,” Trump said.
The 45th president said that Harris should have also been “fact-checked” if the moderators were going to be fair and honest about it.
“Every one of them should have been questioned by David Muir, who I’ve lost a lot of respect for,” Trump said.
“Everyone’s lost respect for him.”
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