During a recent segment on Fox News, senior Trump campaign advisor Katrina Pierson commented on Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's Vice Presidential pick for the upcoming election.
In the interview, Pierson said:
"Not long ago, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist and asked for an apology she never received. Clearly, Phony Kamala will abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat party."
This quote led to a fairly awkward fact check from Neil Cavuto, who noted that Harris never called Biden a racist.
"The president seems to be saying that Kamala Harris had called Joe Biden a racist. She never did."
During the debate in question, Harris actually went so far as to say to Joe Biden:
"I do not believe you are a racist."
Though Pierson was pretty obviously trying to paint Harris as a tool of the "far-left," it's worth noting Harris was one of the more moderate candidates during the Democratic primary and has received a decent amount of criticism from the party's progressive wing.
Cavuto brought attention to this as well, saying:
"As a former prosecutor, if anything, Kamala Harris was getting heat from many African Americans of the party and others because she was a little too tough on crime and that sort of thing."
Meanwhile, during other Fox News broadcasts, the claim that Harris accused Biden of being a racist went "entirely unchecked."
Many online noted the irony that a Fox News journalist doing his basic duty was considered newsworthy.
Cavuto has gotten in trouble with President Trump in past over his basic fact checks.
Cavuto has made a habit of pushing back against some of the President's more egregious lies.
It's likely Fox News will continue to portray Harris and Biden as far-left extremists for their conservative viewers.
White House correspondant John Roberts even claimed after Cavuto's fact check:
"Whether or not [Harris] actually said the word 'racist' or not, I mean, the intimation was there."
With Trump's Presidency riding on this November's election, it seems Fox News reporters aren't going to let something as small as the "facts" harm his chances.
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