Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, has accused ABC News of partiality and left-leaning bias during the recent presidential debate, saying that Kamala Harris’ campaign may have “inappropriately influenced the proceedings” against Donald Trump.   In a letter Wednesday, the senator demanded that ABC release all pre-debate communication and coordination with the Harris campaign, saying the public deserves “transparency” and “accountability” from the mainstream media.   “I demand that you make public all correspondence, records, and potential coordination between the Harris campaign and ABC News ahead of the Sept. 10 ABC debate,” Marshall wrote to ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic. “I also request you publish all ABC News texts and emails, both between ABC employees themselves and with the Harris campaign to elucidate any potential biases that ABC News employees may have demonstrated prior to the debate between President Trump and Vice President Harris,”  he wrote. The Kansas Republican highlighted the fact that Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, who oversees ABC News, has donated money to Harris political campaigns since 2003.  Walden first met Harris in 1994, although their husbands have known each other since the 1980s, The New York Times reported.  In more recent years, Walden also contributed to Harris, according to Open Secrets.    Marshall endorsed Trump for president in November after supporting him during his previous term.  In his letter, Marshall says that one tactic creating bias in the debate hosted by ABC News was the “excessive fact-checking” of Trump by moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, even as they allowed Harris to “avoid answering questions directly.”   “Specifically relating to ABC News, independent media watchdogs, such as AllSides, have characterized the media as displaying a left-leaning bias that moderately aligns with ‘liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas,’” Marshall wrote.   Marshall also brings up recent polling showing Americans have become more skeptical of bias in the so-called mainstream media.   “Only 3 in 10 residents of six of the most important states in this year’s presidential election trust that the media will fairly and accurately report political news,” he wrote.   During the 2020 presidential election, a Gallup poll found increased distrust of mainstream media among Americans.   Mark Penn, former top adviser to former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated in 2016, last week called for a review of all internal communications at ABC News to find out if the news division planned on “rigging” the debate’s outcome, according to Just the News.   Besides Karamehmedovic, Marshall addressed his letter to Julie Chávez Rodriguez, manager of the Harris campaign.  Neither ABC News nor the Harris campaign responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time.   The post Kansas Senator Suggests ABC News ‘Rigged’ Debate to Hurt Trump  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A Florida man camped out with a Louisville Slugger bat and a beer in order to catch an alleged "peeping Tom" who had been harassing his neighborhood for over a year. Flagler County deputies say that the dad had caught a man trying to get a look at his 14-year-old daughter at their home in Palm Coast. 'So, my husband came up and was like, "Surprise, [expletive]," and then whacked him with the bat.' The victim's mother told WESH-TV that they had seen the man a day before her husband chased him. “My cat started to get a little squirrely, so I peeked out and saw a huge silhouette with bright, white shoes. So, my husband got up and chased him, but by the time he got all together, he was way down the road,” the woman said. Feeling protective of his daughter, the husband sat in a lawn chair outside with a bat and some beverages to see if he returned. His wife says he did return. “Who comes back two nights in a row after being busted? But he did," she said. "He came sneaking around the house, came right up to my daughter’s window." She says some of the interaction was caught on a neighbor's Ring doorbell camera. "And he cupped his hands around his eyes and was looking in. So, my husband came up and was like, ‘Surprise, [expletive],’ and then whacked him with the bat. Then, he ran,” she continued. Surveillance video showed the man chasing the alleged peeper and yelling at neighbors to call police. "Where are you going, boy?!" the dad yells on the video. "Come here! Come here! I got somethin' for you!" Police identified the suspect as Damon Smith and were able to arrest him. He was held on $86,000 bond on charges of loitering, voyeurism, and aggravated stalking of a person under 16. WESH reported that Smith was arrested when he was 18 years old for making a bomb threat at a school. Sheriff Rick Staly commended the father for protecting his family. He believes Smith matches the classic description of a sex offender escalating his activities. Video from the scene and the surveillance camera can be watched on the news report from WESH on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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