Donald Trump blasts ABC news after debate, calls to 'fire everybody'

"Remember, I wasn’t debating one person, I was debating three," wrote Trump.

Former President Donald Trump called for ABC News to fire its entire staff after his shaky performance during Tuesday night’s presidential debate on the network.

Trump made the claim in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, where, similar to his debate performance, he made several inaccurate statements.

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“People are just starting to give me credit for having a GREAT DEBATE,” he wrote. “The Voters and Voter Polls showed it, but the Fake News Media wasn’t giving the credit that was due.”

In fact, early polls, including one conducted by a Republican group, indicate that most voters who watched the debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris believed that Harris was the winner.

A CNN/SSRS poll of 605 registered voters showed that 63 percent believed Harris won the debate, compared to 37 percent for Trump, giving her a 26-point advantage. A YouGov poll of 2,166 voters had 54 percent siding with Harris and 31 percent with Trump, giving her a 23-point lead. Meanwhile, a Republican-backed SoCal Strategies/On Point Politics/Red Eagle Politics poll of 572 likely voters found Harris leading with 53 percent, compared to Trump’s 34 percent, showing a 19-point margin in her favor.

“Remember, I wasn’t debating one person, I was debating three,” Trump added, baselessly accusing debate moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir of partisanship—the two politely flagged during the debate that some of Trump’s careening rants, such as his claim of babies being executed, were false. “They should fire everybody at ABC Fake News, whose two lightweight ‘anchors’ have brought disgrace onto the company!”

Slate’s Justin Peters praised Muir and Davis’ work, calling the debate “the best-moderated presidential debate of the Trump era”: “Their questions were sharp, their research was on point, their approach was calm, and they even managed to pull off some real-time fact-checking without coming across as excessively partisan.”