The first Clinton-Trump debate will take place September 26 at Hofstra University of NY, moderated by NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt, the commission said in a statement.
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Raddatz and Cooper will team up to cover the town hall-style debate on October 9 at Washington University in St. Louis.
In early October CBS News anchor Elaine Quijano moderates the Vice Presidential debate.
The Hillary Clinton camp has been talking to Tony Schwartz, the writer of Donald Trump’s book The Art of the Deal, in an effort to discover Trump’s weaknesses and “insecurities”.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is among the four journalists announced Friday as moderators of the upcoming presidential debates. The commission took time to select individuals who are immune or at least as immune as possible of accusations of bias.
FILE – Republican U.S. presidential candidates Marco Rubio (L) and Donald Trump speak simultaneously at the debate sponsored by CNN for the 2016 Republican U.S. presidential candidates in Houston, Texas, Feb. 25, 2016. He then used the term “She was asleep at the wheel” to clarify what he met. Holt also pushed Trump on another nonchalant statement he made concerning Hillary’s emails getting hacked and when Trump didn’t come up with a source as to where he got that fact, he told Holt he’d get back to him. Excluding Jorge Ramos of Univision because he has publicly feuded with Trump, Hispanic journalists who could have potentially served as 2016 debate moderators include Maria Elena Salinas of Univision, Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo and NBC or ABC’s Tom Llamas or Cecilia Vega.
“We ask again for you to reconsider leaving a Spanish-language moderator out of the presidential debate panels”, wrote Falco, who was unavailable for an interview. The rules say candidates will get two minutes to answer, but that moderators could use one more minute to further the conversation. “The job involves doing many things, which is why this is so hard”, former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno said on “Smerconish” last week. So there’s a great deal of pressure and a great deal of sort of real-time thinking that goes into this job.
You can’t please everybody, especially when it comes to the presidential debate commission’s widely-praised selection of moderators for this fall’s televised general election debates. “Very few can, really”. Instead, they chose to schedule at the same time, which will surely impact the audience for the debates.
Hofstra’s 2012 presidential debate was a more relaxed town hall debate that gave us Mitt Romney’s famous “binders full of women” comment and saw a more energized Barack Obama after an uninspiring appearance during the competitors’ first clash.
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They added, “The formats chosen for this year’s debates are created to build on the formats introduced in 2012, which focused big blocks of time on major domestic and foreign topics”.
