ABC moderator Linsey Davis, who was slammed by conservatives for going easier on Kamala Harris than Donald Trump during the presidential debate, was a member of the same historically black sorority as the Democratic presidential nominee.

ABC debate moderator Linsey Davis was a member of the same storied sorority as Kamala Harris

Davis, 46, sparked backlash when she fought back against the former president’s false claims that doctors were discussing aborting babies after birth, with Republicans arguing that the ABC moderator was not nearly as tough on Harris’ erroneous assertions.

Now, it has come to light that the two were both members of Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Harris became a member of the sisterhood when she was an undergraduate student at Howard University in Washington.

ABC News moderator Linsey Davis was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha at the University of Virginia. ABC

Vice president Kamala Harris was a member of the sorority at Howard University. AFP via Getty Images

The Democratic presidential nominee graduated from the private, historically black university in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts.
Lewis, meanwhile, became an Alpha Kappa Alpha sister when she was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, where she graduated in 1999 with a bachelor’s in psychology.

The two sorority sisters, however, had no known meeting prior to Tuesday night’s debate.

Still, the link unsettled some conservatives, who expressed concern online.

“The fact that Kamala Harris and Linsey Davis are members of the same sorority (Alpha Kappa Alpha – Howard and UVA respectively) is relevant with respect to potential bias,” one commentator wrote on X.

“Alpha Kappa Alpha is one of the most storied legacy standing sororities in this country. Membership is by invitation only and regarded with the highest of honors by it’s members. @LinseyDavis and @KamalaHarris are both alumni sisters,” another pointed out.

Scrutiny has surrounded Davis after she corrected Trump’s abortion claim live during the debate as he appeared to be referencing former Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s 2019 remarks about aborting babies after birth.

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” Davis said, drawing howls from conservatives who noted that six states and the District of Columbia currently do not place any limits on the procedure.

“Biased ABC anchor Linsey Davis teams up with Vice President Kamala Harris to attack former President Donald Trump on abortion,” Tom Olohan, a writer for the conservative Media Research Center, wrote on X following the incident.

Conservatives says Trump was repeatedly grilled on the debate stage, and more than VP Harris was. AP
While Davis and her fellow moderator, David Muir, were fact-checking Trump’s claims on stage, they have been accused of keeping mum when Harris stretched the truth.

Trump allies and Republican commentators were left fuming and compiling a long list of missed opportunities for Muir and Davis to fact-check Harris, such as when she said that police had died during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and that Trump had imperiled access to IVF treatments.

“ABC is making a huge mistake trying to fact check this live. They’re only proving how biased they are. Harris fabricated an attack on Trump over IVF. ABC sat there and said nothing,” Ari Fleischer, a White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, wrote on X.
Other alleged falsehoods by Harris that went unchallenged included her comment that Trump had threatened a “bloodbath” if he lost the election, a misquote from his remarks about the state of the US auto industry.

ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis repeatedly challenged Trump’s false claims during Tuesday night’s debate. ABC
Fox News host and former Trump press secretary Kayleight McEnany said ABC should be “ashamed of themselves” over the alleged lack of fairness during the debate.

“Linsey Davis completely interjects herself into the debate to help Kamala. No surprise at all there,” OutKick founder Clay Travis wrote on X.

“David Muir is out of control,” added Tom Fitton, president of the conservative Judicial Watch, writing, “It isn’t ‘fact-checking,’ it is attacking.”

Following the heated debate, Harris reps immediately pitched a second debate next month, to which the Trump camp responded by noting that the former president is still interested in more faceoffs with the VP.