On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates and former Chair of the RNC, criticized the moderators of the recent presidential debate.

He described the performance by David Muir and Linsey Davis as “the worst performance that I’ve seen,” asserting that they were biased in their treatment of the candidates.

Fahrenkopf stated that the moderators “clearly were oversized” in how they handled 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and “bent backwards to help” Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting an uneven moderation approach during the debate.

“I thought one of the things that really shocked me last night was the way the moderators handled it. We always explain to our moderators, and we’ve done 33 of those, Greta, starting back in 1988, that their job is to be facilitators. They’re not to get involved themselves. It’s different than if you had someone on your show and you asked them a question and they answered it in a different way than they said a month before, you would correct them. But moderators are not supposed to do that. A debate is between the candidates, not a debate between the candidate and the moderators. And these moderators, so far as I was concerned, it was the worst performance that I’ve seen. And I’ve — as I said, I’ve done 33 of these things over the years. I don’t know what their thoughts were, but they clearly were oversized, I think, on the way they treated the former President and the way they treated the present Vice President, I think they bent backwards to help her.”