Republicans were furious at ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for refusing to fact check Kamala Harris on her lies about Donald Trump‘s views on IVF.
Muir and Davis have repeatedly attempted to fact check Trump during the debate on issues such as the Capitol riot and a claim about migrant crime.
However, Harris incorrectly stated that Trump was against in vitro fertilization during the debate.
The former president stated that he has spoken out in favor of IVF when it has faced bans at the state level.
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer wrote on social media: ‘ABC is making a huge mistake trying to fact check this live. They’re only proving how biased they are. Harris fabricated an attack on Trump over IVF. ABC sat there and said nothing’.
A Trump campaign account pointed out what the debate moderators wouldn’t: that Harris wasn’t telling the truth.
‘Kamala is LYING again. President Trump has said he wants to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, including supporting IVF in every state’, they wrote.
Trump frustrated social conservatives by adopting a more progressive line on IVF, or in vitro fertilization.
This week, he declared that he would make the expensive procedure free for Americans, which the New York Times noted would be ‘an initiative that would put him to the left of many Democrats.’
The former president has further distanced himself from the issue by reportedly ordering the party to tone down abortion language at the Republican National Convention.
Earlier this spring, Trump told his advisors that he was leaning toward endorsing a 16-week national abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, according to the New York Times.
However, he reportedly reversed course after looking over some polling and started saying that abortion was something that should be decided at the state level.
Also, the former president has repeatedly voiced his objection when state’s have ruled too harshly on the abortion question.
He has denounced Florida’s 6-week ban, calling it a ‘terrible mistake,’ and during an interview with NBC on Thursday. He added that women in Florida needed more time in order to determine whether or not they wanted an abortion.
This prompted outcry from some conservatives, including those at the National Review, where they published an article entitled ‘Trump Stabs Florida Pro-lifers in the Front.’
In an effort to clean up the situation, Ms. Leavitt told the New York Times that the former president ‘simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short.’
Trump revealed that he would vote no on the measure that would preserve the six-week ban in Florida.
As the final weeks of the presidential campaign grind on and Trump tries to regain some of the losses he has incurred since Harris took over for President Joe Biden, he will face the immense challenge of winning over new, more liberal, voters while placating his base.
