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"I'm really concerned about what ABC did. When the refs put their finger on the scale, you've gotta throw out the score of the game," Penn told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. "What would have happened in that debate had they challenged Harris and said 'you know, that's not right what you said there about Charlottesville.' We don't know how she would have reacted, and then Trump wouldn't have had to spend all his time on the [defensive]. I think they did a real disservice to the voters of America when they did that and they put in jeopardy the institutions of debate."

While Harris made multiple misstatements during the debate, including about abortion and Project 2025, according to Check Your Fact, Muir and Davis did not interrupt or "fact check" her during the debate.

Mark went into more detail during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast, imagining how differently things could have turned out after the infamous Trump-Biden debate if the moderators had behaved the same way as they did in the Trump-Harris debate. Would Biden have been considered the winner?