misstatement

"If the candidates are unwilling to say anything new and provocative, the media will focus on their misstatements and artless dodges. ... Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing Harris can do."

CNN’s hosts did not intervene to correct misstatements by the candidates.

Trump has repeatedly hurled critiques at former President Obama, when his real target seemed to be President Biden, misstatements he insisted were “sarcasm.”

Davis acknowledged that she and Muir could not nail every misstatement.

But the more she speaks in less scripted settings, the more practice she gets and the less effect a single gaffe or misstatement might have.