According to former President Donald Trump, his testy, at times bizarre debate performance was anyone's fault but the man who performed. Trump phoned into Fox & Friends early Wednesday morning to first cast blame on ABC News, which hosted the debate, for a "rigged deal" that favored Vice President Kamala Harris. He then suggested that a potential second debate could be hosted by some of his favored anchors, though he said he might not participate anyway because he claims to have won the first round.
Poll respondents and a slew of political commentators disagree with Trump. A post-debate CNN poll of registered voters showed that most watchers thought Harris won by a decisive margin, 63% to 37%. The same pool of voters was evenly split on who they expected to win before the debate. But Trump continued to insist that he did great, telling Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade that he saw web polls that showed him winning by overwhelming margins and that because moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis sided with Harris, in his view, he was actually debating against three people "when you look at the fact that they were correcting everything, and not correcting with her."
