Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has vowed to launch an inquiry into whether the moderators of the ABC News presidential debate collaborated with Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign to leak debate questions or influence fact-checking in her favor.

“I will be sending a letter to @ABC and the Harris Campaign demanding all correspondence, records, and potential coordination between the two parties ahead of Tuesday’s presidential debate,” Marshall wrote on X Friday.

His announcement came after Mark Penn, a former senior adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, urged ABC to initiate an internal investigation into whether the debate was manipulated. Penn, who served the Clintons from 1995-2008, said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast Thursday that a neutral third party should review internal messages and emails to determine if Harris had an unfair advantage.

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris, much of the criticism has focused not just on the candidates, but on the debate moderators. ABC News had selected “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir and “ABC News Live Prime” anchor Linsey Davis to moderate. The pair has since faced accusations of showing bias towards Harris and fact-checking only Trump.

Calling for another debate, Harris stated, “I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate because this election and what is at stake could not be more important.”

Trump, however, expressed a different view on Truth Social Thursday, stating: “KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”

Some critics of ABC have pointed to Disney senior executive Dana Walden’s close relationship with Harris, as noted by The New York Times. Walden and Harris have been friends for over two decades, and their husbands have known each other since the 1980s.

{Matzav.com}