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Former Clinton Advisor, who is paid by AdAge and Stagwell, calls for investigation

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Mark Penn: ABC News Should Do A Full Investigation Into Debate, "I Don't Know What They Told The Harris Campaign"


Pollster and former Clinton strategist Mark Penn called on ABC News to hire an outside law firm to look into internal communication between the network and the Harris campaign and to "what extent" they planned on "rigging the outcome of this debate."

"I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don't know how much of this was planned in advance," Penn told the 'John Solomon Reports' podcast.


"I don't know what they told the Harris campaign," Penn said. "I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate. I think the situation demands nothing less than that."
 
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His remarks come as the debate moderators were criticized for being biased, from pressing Trump with follow-ups to letting Harris off the hook when she refused to answer questions to repeatedly fact-checking Trump while never fact-checking Harris.


Speaking with John Solomon from Just The News, Penn said: “I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don’t know how much of this was planned in advance.”
 
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Yes they must have coordinated with Harris to have Trump scream and rant about immigrants eating cats and dogs and giving transgender illegal aliens sex changes in prison.
 
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Yes they must have coordinated with Harris to have Trump scream and rant about immigrants eating cats and dogs and giving transgender illegal aliens sex changes in prison.
This thread is about a Democrat calling for an investigation.
 
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This thread is about a Democrat calling for an investigation.
That’s nice. I don’t see how any coordination between Harris and the moderators explains Trump’s obvious and glaring failures that night.
 
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That’s nice. I don’t see how any coordination between Harris and the moderators explains Trump’s obvious and glaring failures that night.
Oh, YOU don't see a problem - well, that settles the whole thing - I'll let Mark Penn know you said an investigation isn't needed.
 
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That’s nice. I don’t see how any coordination between Harris and the moderators explains Trump’s obvious and glaring failures that night.
I agree, Trump spoke for himself during the debate and it was not in his favor.
 
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Oh, YOU don't see a problem - well, that settles the whole thing - I'll let Mark Penn know you said an investigation isn't needed.
By all means, investigate away. Let me know how that explains Trump’s outlandish behavior that night which is what everyone watching took away from the debate.
 
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I agree, Trump spoke for himself during the debate and it was not in his favor.
Unprompted too. The question wasn’t even a gotcha. He chose to look like a racist delusional loon on national television all by himself.
 
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I think what is disturbing to some on the left is the fact - a DEMOCRAT is calling for an investigation of the Moderators and the DEMOCRATIC candidate. So they cannot claim a right wing conspiracy - so the only solution is to deflect to 'but Trump'. Which has not been effective for about three years.
 
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I think what is disturbing to some on the left is the fact - a DEMOCRAT is calling for an investigation of the Moderators and the DEMOCRATIC candidate. So they cannot claim a right wing conspiracy - so the only solution is to deflect to 'but Trump'. Which has not been effective for about three years.
Focusing on the moderators is a deflection from Trump‘s debate performance. Imagine if after Biden’s failed debate everyone on the left only wanted to talk about the moderators while insisting he did a great job. You’d think we’ve all lost our minds.
 
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Mark Penn: ABC News Should Do A Full Investigation Into Debate, "I Don't Know What They Told The Harris Campaign"


Pollster and former Clinton strategist Mark Penn called on ABC News to hire an outside law firm to look into internal communication between the network and the Harris campaign and to "what extent" they planned on "rigging the outcome of this debate."

"I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don't know how much of this was planned in advance," Penn told the 'John Solomon Reports' podcast.


"I don't know what they told the Harris campaign," Penn said. "I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate. I think the situation demands nothing less than that."
I do not find Mark Penn's suspicion of some conspiracy to be well founded.
 
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It puzzles me that Harris just seemed to know there'd be questions on immigration, abortion, the economy and global warming for example. I mean, how could she possibly know that? [/sarcasm]
 
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It puzzles me that Harris just seemed to know there'd be questions on immigration, abortion, the economy and global warming for example. I mean, how could she possibly know that? [/sarcasm]
Republicans apparently have forgotten what it looks like to do your homework.
 
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Let's take a moment here:

Who would have more insight into the situation? A Democratic advisor who has been involved for 30+ years or some keyboard warriors?
 
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Let's take a moment here:

Who would have more insight into the situation? A Democratic advisor who has been involved for 30+ years or some keyboard warriors?
He started going MAGA several years ago.
 
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Let's take a moment here:

Who would have more insight into the situation? A Democratic advisor who has been involved for 30+ years or some keyboard warriors?
Perhaps he's calling for it so that it can be shown that threads like this are just silly deflections from how badly convicted felon Trump looked on that debate stage?

And even if the Harris campaign had been given the debate questions and even if she had someone talking in her ear (another debunked conspiracy theory) giving her all the right answers, in what way would that excuse\justify\nullify the absolute racist insanity that came out of convicted felon Trump's mouth?
 
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