During the debate, Vance accused the moderators of breaking the rules due to repeated instances of Brennan and Norah O'Donnell fact-checking the Ohio senator. However, CBS' rules as provided to the campaigns did not include any prohibitions on fact-checking, with the network planning all along to provide fact-checking in real time online and in post-debate commentary.
At one point during the debate, both Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) had their microphones muted after the moderators fact-checked Vance for comments he made on Haitian immigrants in Ohio. Roberts claimed that Brennan was condescending during her fact-checking of Vance.
ROBERTS: All right. So there you had three things happening. First of all, the fact check, JD Vance, when they said that they weren't going to, then they cut the microphones just as it was getting good. And then that was a rather snide, condescending sneer I thought that Margaret Brennan had when she said, Thank you for explaining the legal process.
ROVE: Yeah. No. The major dominant media didn't look good last night in this regard. And you know make up your mind, you're either going to fact check or not fact check.
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