News chief anchor Lester Holt will moderate the first scheduled presidential debate on September 26. CBS’ Elaine Quijano will host as Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine face off for the first time.
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The second debate, in a town hall format on October 9 at Washington University in St. Louis, will be moderated by ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, who moderated the vice presidential debate in 2012, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Clinton and Trump will gather again October 9 at Washington University in St. Louis for a debate held in a town-meeting format at Washington University. Wallace will moderate the final presidential debate on October 19 at UNLV.
LESTER HOLT: I want to ask you about a moment at the town hall the other day.
The debates will all run from 9:00-10:30 p.m.
Even Mitt Romney, who ultimately lost to Obama, shook up the 2012 race late in the season by routing the president in their first debate. The topics will be chosen by the moderator. While he didn’t moderate a Republican debate, he has interviewed Trump and when he did he was relentless when trying to extract facts from the GOP candidate.
In 1980, a cheerful Ronald Reagan shone in his debate against President Jimmy Carter, scolding him with a gentle “there you go again”, and posing a pointed closing question: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
The presidential election is November 8.
We understand the critical role the debate process plays in informing voters about each candidate’s position on the issues that impact them directly, such as jobs and the economy and health, among others.
Over the past half-century, general-election debates have offered plenty of moments of televised high drama but knockouts are rare. Wallace joined Fox News in 2003 after spending 14 years (1989-2003) at ABC News and the 14 years (1975-1989) at NBC News. Trump’s anger with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly was one of the primary campaign’s biggest stories, and it began because he didn’t like a debate question she asked about his attitude toward women.
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“Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace”. “The CPD has a simple mission, to ensure that presidential debates help the public learn about the positions of the leading candidates for president and vice president”, CPD co-chairs Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. and Michael D. McCurry said. In a June interview, he pressed for evidence to support Trump’s claim that Clinton was asleep at critical times during the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and got the casino magnate to admit that his assertion might not be true.
