http://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-dana-bash-admits-she-prepped-much-more-how-trump-would-act-during-first-debate-than-biden
By Hanna Panreck
Fox News
September 30, 2024
CNN host Dana Bash told the co-hosts of "The View" on Monday that she and her co-moderator Jake Tapper prepped much more for how former President Trump would act during their debate in June than they did for President Biden.
"The View" co-host Ana Navarro asked Bash if anything surprised her anymore after the president ended up dropping out, noting that Bash has been at the "center" of the election cycle because of her interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and viral clash with Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump's running mate.
"I still sort of can’t believe that we are where we are for so many reasons. I mean, the debate, if you would have told me beforehand when we were prepping, and the prep is very intense, that we would have ended up without Joe Biden in the race, I would have told you you’d lost your mind. I never would have believed that. We were prepping much more on how Donald Trump was going to act and react, and sort of tried to game that out, than on the Joe Biden side of things," Bash responded.
Yep ... "game," as in you and Tapper doing everything and anything you can to help Biden look good and Trump look bad.
Biden's halting, frail showing at the CNN debate led directly to his departure in July, following weeks of pressure from Democrats.
CNN's Dana Bash joined "The View" on Monday and said she and host Jake Tapper prepped more for Donald Trump's reactions than President Biden's.
Trump and Harris faced off in early September for a debate moderated by ABC News' David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Davis and Muir fact-checked Trump several times during the debate and failed to fact-check the vice president at all.
Davis admitted in a post-debate interview that her fact-checking of Trump was influenced by the CNN debate.
"People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators," Davis told the Los Angeles Times. ...
Yeah, your "moderation" of the Trump/Harris debate was influenced by the fact you perceived that Bash & Tapper didn't cheat enough to make Biden look good (even though that was a lost cause), so you schemed to make up ground and do your worst against Trump.
I'm pleased to see that you admit your intentional treachery, though.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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