ABC debate moderator Linsey Davis was a member of the same storied sorority as Kamala Harris
ABC moderator ✱Linsey Davis, who was slammed by conservatives for going easier on Kamala Harris than Donald Trump during the presidential debate, was a member of the same historically black sorority as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Davis, 46, sparked backlash when she fought back against the former president’s false claims that doctors were discussing aborting babies after birth, with Republicans arguing that the ABC moderator was not nearly as tough on Harris’ erroneous assertions.
Now, it has come to light that t๊he two werඣe both members of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Harris became a member of the sisterhood when she was an unde🌺rgraduate student at Howard University in Washington.
The Democratic preside♊ntial nominee with a bachelor of arts.
Davis became an Alpha Kappa Alpha sister when she was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, with a bachelor’s in psychology.
The two sorority sisters have met at least once bef⛎ore during an ABC one-on-one interview last year.
Still, the link unsettled some conse🍒rvatives, who expressed concern online.
“The fact that Kamala Harris and Linsey Davis are members of the same sorority (Alpha Kappa Alpha – Howard and UVA respectively) is relevant with respect to potential bias,” .
“Alpha Kappa Alpha is one of the most storied legacy standing sororities in this country. Membership is by invitation only and regarded with the highest of honors by it’s members. @LinseyDavis and @KamalaHarris are both alumni sisters,” .
Scrutiny has surrounded Davis after she corrected Trump’s abortion claim live during the debate as he appeared to be referencing former Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s 2019 after birth.
“There is ༺no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” Davis said, drawing howls from conservatives who noted that six states and the District of Columbia currently do not place any limits on the procedure.
“Biased ABC anchor Linsey Davis teams up with Vice President Kamala Harris to attack former President Donald Trump on abortion,” Tom Olohan, a writer for the conservative Media Research Center, wrote on X following the incident.
While Davis and her fellow moderator, David Muir, were fact-checking Trump’s claims on stage, they have been accused of keeping mum when Harris stretched the truth.
Trump allies and Republican commenღtators were left fuming and compiling a long list of missed opportunities for Muir and Davis to fact-check Harris, such as when she said police had died during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and that Trump had imperiled access to IVF treatments.
“ABC is making a huge mistake trying to fact check this live. They’re only proving how biased they ✨are. Harris fabricated an attack on Trump over IVF. ABC sat there and said nothing,” Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, wrote on X.
Other alleged falsehoods ⛎by Harris that went unchallenged included her comment that Tℱrump had threatened a “bloodbath” if he lost the election, a misquote of his remarks about the state of the US auto industry.
Fox News host and former Trump press secretary Kayleight McEnany said ABC should be “ashamed of themselves” over the alleged lack of fairness during the debate.
“Linsey Davis completely interjects herself into the debate to help Kamala. No surprise at all there,” OutKick founder Clay Travis wrote on X.
“David Muir is out of control,” , president of the conservative Judicial Watch, writing, “It isn’t ‘fact-checking꧙,’ it is attacking.”
Following the heated debate, Harris reps imme𝓀diately pitched a second debate next month, to which the Trump camp responded by noting that the former president is still interested in more faceoffs with the VP.
However, by Thursday, Trump had reversed and put the kibosh on any further debates.
