ABC’s David Muir takes hit to rat­ings after per­for­mance as debate mod­er­a­tor

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ABC News’s David Muir expe­ri­enced a decline in rat­ings in his flag­ship show after his con­tro­ver­sial per­for­mance as one of the mod­er­a­tors of the pres­i­den­tial debate between for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris.
Muir was a debate mod­er­a­tor along­side Lin­sey Davis, fre­quent­ly fact-check­ing Trump while fail­ing to do so for Har­ris. Muir was crit­i­cized for dis­put­ing the for­mer president’s claim that crime was going up by coun­ter­ing with incom­plete data and ques­tion­ing whether he was being sar­cas­tic or not in a pre­vi­ous inter­view. The flak Muir took from the expe­ri­ence appears to ha …