“Because the electorate is so volatile this year, it doesn’t take almost as much to get a loosely aligned voter to switch their allegiance”, says Dan Schnur, director of the University of Southern California’s political institute.
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It is the lowest rating Clinton has had in her quarter-century in national public life, the Post reported. But.Wallace didn’t tip-toe around the questions for either of the debates and he was “tough” on Trump when putting up a fact-checking screen in what has been referred to as Wallace’s slide show! Thirty-five percent of Americans have a favorable impression of him, compared with 63 percent unfavorable, the Postreported.
The first debate will be held on September 26 in NY, and will be moderated by Lester Holt of NBC. Cooper and Raddatz, chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of “This Week”, will moderate that session. President Barack Obama comes in at a close second with 25%.
News chief anchor Lester Holt will moderate the first scheduled presidential debate on September 26, with ABC’s Martha Raddatz, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace lined up for others.
Wallace will moderate the third and final presidential debate at University of Nevada in Las Vegas on October 19. It is planned for October 19 at University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
Randy Falco, the President and CEO of Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, wrote an open letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday expressing “disappointment, and frankly disbelief”, that the Commission did not choose a Hispanic journalist to moderate one of the debates.
The newspaper touted Clinton’s government experience and said she’s demonstrated an ability to work with Republicans.
Trump had previously said he had raised $6 million at the nationally broadcast fund-raiser he attended instead of the debate and that he would donate it all to veterans groups.
At the same event, asked about Iran, Trump offered this odd assessment: “W$3 e also happened to have given them Iraq”.
He told Howard Stern: “I don’t think I’m going to vote…”
Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, announced Wednesday that 95 retired generals and admirals have endorsed her presidential bid.
The presidential debates are where the American people get to hear from the candidates they have to choose between.
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The commission wanted candidates who were- in addition to being qualified and capable of moderating a debate – have a sterling reputation for being fair and balanced and have no past record of controversy with either Clinton and Trump. The candidates are debating ahead of the NY primary to be held April 19. “It’s about time to have a Latino or a Latina in those debates as moderators”.
