What to Expect in the Trump-Harris Presidential Debate and How to Watch It: ABC News Editor Dana Walden and Kamala Harris
Ahead of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, Trump is already boosting conspiracies that the event is being “rigged” in favor of Harris.
“I’m going into very hostile territory with ABC, … [who] I think is the worst of everybody,” Trump told reporters on Saturday. “The reason I’m doing [the debate] is that’s the only one that [Harris] would do it with, because her best friend is the head of ABC.”
Trump was referring to Dana Walden, a Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC News. For more than 30 years, Walden and her husband have been good friends with Harris and her husband, as well as many other Democratic candidates who have received money from them.
ABC News, however, is one of just 18 brands Walden oversees at Disney, and her involvement with ABC News does not extend to the editorial level, but is instead focused on corporate affairs such as budgets and staffing. The network told the New York Times last month that all editorial decisions are in the hands of ABC News management and seasoned journalists.
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Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump: A Long-Lived Debate with a Celebrity Candidate? An Online Conversation with Patrick Healy
Former NYCMayor Michael Bloomberg was not allowed a lift when he was in a debate. Trump wrote. “It would be a form of cheating, and the Democrats cheat enough.”
Ross Douthat: For Harris, at least, I think there’s a clear upside to acting like the debate is a contest of policy positions, however the media covers it. Her campaign has been signaling — perhaps sincerely or perhaps as misdirection — that she wants to challenge Trump, to interrupt and pick fights and fact-check him.
Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Tressie McMillan Cottom about Tuesday’s debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
