“He said Lester Holt was a Democrat. Lester Holt is a Republican. How could he say such a thing that just black-and white factually incorrect?” asked guest and Bloomberg Politics host Mark Halperin.
“I don’t know that he knew what Lester Holt’s voter registration is,” Conway said.
“Without knowing then, he asserted he was a Democrat?” Halperin asked.
“First of all, if you tell me the media are not overly populated with Democrats, that’s false,” Conway argued.
“I’m asking about a very specific thing,” Halperin said. “He made a factual claim about the moderator who deserves the right to be treated fairly and it was just wrong. And it’s a metaphor for his frequently in public stating things with no basis, that are wrong.”
Conway
“You’re not answering what I asked you,” Halperin said. “I’m asking you how someone running for president can assert on the eve of the debate that the moderator is a Democrat, which is factually incorrect? How can he do that?”
“Should he have asked him his voter registration?” retorted Conway, somewhat condescendingly.
“He shouldn’t have asserted– he didn’t say, ‘I don’t know what he is, but I think he’s biased,’ he said he’s a Democrat,” Halperin insisted.
Conway again pivoted, and attacked Hillary Clinton for her own working of the refs ahead of the debate and attacked the media coverage of the campaign. “I don’t understand what that has to do with Mark’s question,” Brzezinski said when she was finished.
“We are frustrated by media coverage,” Conway replied.
“We were asking why he lied about Lester Holt.”
“I don’t think he lied,” Conway said.
“Um, I think he did,” said Brzezinski.
“Mika, a lie would mean he knew the man’s party registration,” argued Conway.
“So as president, would he say things that are false without knowing the truth?” asked a disbelieving Halperin. Unfortunately, co-
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