After controversial debate performance, ABC's David Muir's newscast ratings decline

David Muir and Linsey Davis while moderating the US Presidential Debate of 2024 hosted by the ABC News, allegedly criticized former US President Donald Trump even as they reportedly gave a free hand to Vice President Kamala Harris. Following this act of David Muir, the views of ‘World News Tonight’ hosted by him which was averaging around 7.6 million in the whole of 2024 dropped at a significant rate and the views averaged around 6.7 million after the Presidential Debate 2024 in the upcoming weeks, reported Fox News.

Fox News asserted that Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America took a dig on David Muir regarding his abortion claim which he made while attacking and fact-checking Donald Trump with his questions and regarded the abortion claim as totally inaccurate. The conservatives while criticizing both moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis noted that the 12 percent fall in viewing of ‘World News Tonight’ is actually a result of biasness shown by them towards Kamala Harris driving away significant loyal viewers of the show.

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It was noticed that Donald Trump was fact-checked five times in the debate while the count of fact-checking by the moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis in case of Kamala Harris in the US Presidential Debate was zero. Following the US Presidential Debate Donald Trump expressed his disappointment and told Fox News that he and everyone in the world has lost the respect for David Muir claiming that he was fighting a one-sided US Presidential Debate against three people.

According to Fox News, despite of alleged allegations of Biasness against David Muir, his show World News Tonight still stands at the top as the broadcast evening newscast beating NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News.

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FAQs:

Q1. Who made the abortion claim while fact-checking Donald Trump in the US Presidential Debate 2024?
A1. David Muir made the abortion claim which is being regarded as totally inaccurate by Susan B. Anthony.

Q2. Who were hosting the US Presidential Debate 2024?
A2. Linsey Davis and David Muir were the host of US Presidential Debate who are being allegedly termed as biased by Conservatives.