Then Cooper and co-moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News will moderate a town-hall style debate on October 9 from Missouri.
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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will be the first openly gay person to host a US Presidential debate.
Trump has often been known to go after moderators, namely Megyn Kelly of Fox News.
The second presidential debate “will take the form of a town meeting, in which half of the questions will be posed directly by citizen participants and the other half will be based on topics of broad public interest as reflected in social media and other sources”.
The final debate between Clinton and Trump is scheduled for October 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The president and CEO of Univision sent an email to the Commission on Presidential Debates today expressing his disappointment with them for not selecting any Hispanic debate moderators. Elaine Quijano, a CBSN anchor and CBS News.
Wallace, who joined Fox News from ABC News in 2003, has a reputation for being tough on both sides of the political spectrum, which likely made him acceptable to commission co-chairs Frank J. Fahrenkopf, a former head of the Republican National Committee, and Mike McCurry, who was press secretary in Bill Clinton’s White House.
In the primaries, Trump grabbed the spotlight in the opening minutes of the first of a dozen GOP debates, when he was the only candidate to refuse to rule out a third-party run for president. It will be the first time that the general election campaign’s much-anticipated first debate won’t be moderated by the now-retired Jim Lehrer of PBS since 1984. Fellow veteran debate moderator Bob Schieffer, of CBS, did a little better, and CNN’s Candy Crowley’s willingness to correct the record onstage sparked conservatives criticism but was utterly compelling as pure TV and revealing as to how candidate Mitt Romney reacted under unexpected pressure.
NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt will moderate the September 26 debate at Hofstra.
“Simply put”, writes Falco, it’s an abdication of your responsibility to represent and reflect one of the largest and most influential communities in the U.S”.
According to the New York Times, Hillary Clinton’s advisors are already preparing for her first debate against Trump – piling on the research and coming up with strategy to “undermine” Trump in the debates.
“Because of our experiences in 2008 and 2012, we well understand what is required of us, and we are confident in our ability to execute an excellent debate in conjunction with the CPD”, Hofstra said in a statement at the time.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will meet in three presidential debates in the coming months.
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This report includes material from AP, Reuters and AFP.
