Cooper and Raddatz will co-moderate the second debate, which will be a town-hall style event at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on October 9.
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Chris Wallace is, I believe, the first person from Fox News to be selected to moderate one of these debates, although he technically isn’t a Fox News Channel host since his program Fox News Sunday airs primarily on Fox’s broadcast stations on Sunday mornings before being replayed later in the day on the cable network. CBS News correspondent and CBSN anchor Elaine Quijano will preside over the vice presidential debate on October 4.
The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday also announced that CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano will moderate the vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine. There was no immediate reaction from the candidates to the chosen moderators. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will moderate.
The debates will all run from 9:00-10:30 p.m.
Univision’s star anchor, Jorge Ramos, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, has campaigned to be a moderator for a debate and expressed disappointment on Twitter on Friday when the names were unveiled.
The delay is due in part to an unprecedented challenge the bipartisan Commission faces in selecting individuals who are immune (or at least as immune as possible) to accusations of bias.
“You can’t lobby for it”, he said.
This has made the Commission even more cautious than usual in researching potential moderators, sources said.
“That’s not my job”, Wallace, who hosts Fox News Sunday, said.
Anderson Cooper is among the journalists who have been chosen to moderate one of three upcoming U.S. presidential debates.
Over the past half-century, general-election debates have offered plenty of moments of televised high drama but knockouts are rare. No candidates, since 1984, have been viewed more unfavorably that both Trump and Clinton; 57 percent of American voters see Trump unfavorably, 52 percent of American voters see Clinton unfavorably. When President Jimmy Carter refused, Reagan debated Anderson without Carter. “It’s full of empty promises”, Ramos said, adding that Trump’s plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and to stop giving automatic citizenship to their children born on USA soil was unrealistic.
“I would say that certain moderators would be unacceptable, absolutely”, he told Time magazine last month. 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.
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But according to the New York Times, Trump is taking a more laid back approach to his first debate.
