Maryland Gov. Wes Moore , a Democrat, carefully corrected the false claim made by party nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at the presidential debate last week that no members of the American military are in combat zones anywhere in the world.
“We do have people who are in harm’s way every single day,” said Moore.
The governor spoke with anchor Margaret Brennan on the latest Face the Nation from CBS News on Sunday, discussing the election and other topics, including last week’s presidential debate between Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump .
Brennan played a clip from the debate in which Harris made the claim that “there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.”
“That’s false. That’s alienating the military families,” said Brennan of the claim that the ABC debate moderators David Muir and Linsey David did not fact-check during the event.
Brennan asked Moore what Harris intended by the false statement, a question that presumes without evidence that Harris didn’t really mean to lie.