Five days on from the presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat nomin
redstate.com By Becca Lower
Five days on from the presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, it continues to take up oxygen in the room–and not in a good way for the vice president. As we previously wrote, one of the misstatements that the ABC News moderators didn’t fact-check Harris on during the debate was about the U.S. military.
The setup happened during the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and the topic centered on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. When pressed on the matter, Harris tried to pivot by claiming that there is not a single American service member currently serving in a combat zone.
HARRIS: As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.
It took actual, active servicemembers to provide the fact check, as this viral video Bonchie shared in his piece showed:
This is the greatest fact-check to ever exist. It will never get better than this. Savor it. pic.twitter.com/V6U6q4EF8t
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 14, 2024
The damage caused by that statement to the Harris-Walz campaign continued to fester on Sunday, during ABC News’ “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” program, when co-anchor Martha Raddatz interviewed Harris surrogate, Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey:
Pressed by @MarthaRaddatz on Vice Pres. Kamala Harris’ remarks about the military during the debate, Gov. Maura Healey says, "I think what's important here is that Kamala Harris, in contrast to Donald Trump, demonstrated herself to be commander-in-chief." https://t.co/bs15S5KMms pic.twitter.com/j9Dbmn3ajw
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 15, 2024
The host replayed Kamala’s false line about the military, then this conversation happened. It’s lengthy but worth reading in context:
RADDATZ: Our fact checkers found that to be false and I have a lot of experience in that area, as well. There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2500 U.S. troops in Iraq, all have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months. We also have action in the Red Sea. We also — every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces, special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid…
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