The second Republican presidential primary debate on September 27th will be co-moderated by Univsions’s Ilia Calderón – a rabid political partisan who has said that former President Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric “empowers white supremacists.” The Spanish language network Univision is partnered with the Fox Business Network to host the debate – Stuart Varney and Dana Perino will join Calderón, who is from Columbia, as moderators.
Calderón – who Fox Business bills as “the first Afro-Latina to anchor an evening newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States” – has a long history of flaunting her far-left bias on social media. In 2018, as then President Trump pushed for tighter border controls to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S., Calderón claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that “Trump does not want whites to stop being the majority,” adding that this was the reason for his opposition to mass immigration.
Trump no quiere que los blancos dejen de ser mayoría, y sería el motivo de sus medidas contra la inmigración. https://t.co/GBw7jEWnvC
— ilia calderon (@iliacalderon) February 8, 2018
The Univision anchor isn’t just critical of Trump and Republicans, she has plenty of praise for Democrat politicians. In 2009 Calderón praised Barack Obama, saying, “…it is a pleasure to listen to a great speaker!” In another instance of pro-Democrat bias, she reposted a claim that the U.S.’s political and economic struggles were the fault of Republicans for obstructing then President Obama’s radical political agenda.
In the aftermath of January 6, 2021, Calderón claimed that Republicans were “silent about those responsible” and insinuated that the protestors who stormed the U.S. Capitol Building committed a “deadly attack.” The only person to die as a direct result of the events on January 6 was protestor Ashli Babbitt who was shot and killed by U.S. Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd.
Former President Trump is expected to skip the September 27th Republican presidential primary debate. Polling after the first debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin suggests that Trump’s absence had no negative impact on his commanding lead over the rest of the Republican candidates.
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