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CNN’s Kasie Hunt Ends Interview With Trump Spokeswoman After She Rails Against Debate Moderators; Network Defends Jake Tapper And Dana Bash — Update
The Trump campaign has been accelerating its attacks on debate moderators.
During the interview, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the former president “is knowingly going in to a hostile environment on this very network, on CNN, with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years and their biased coverage of him.” Hunt then said that Tapper and Bash “have acquitted themselves as professionals as they have covered campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle.” She then noted that “if you talk to analysts or previous debates…if you are attacking the moderates, you are usually losing.” Trump and his allies have gone after Thursday’s debate moderators in speeches and interviews, with the former president referring to Tapper as “fake Tapper.” The working-the-refs in advance of Thursday’s debate is not a surprise: Trump has bashed the moderators in previous election cycles.
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