Friday, September 2, 2016

Moderators Announced for Presidential Debates


This year’s Presidential debates will be moderated by NBC's Lester Holt, Fox News’s Chris Wallace, CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Martha Raddatz.

The nonprofit, non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Friday unveiled the list of moderators, which had been hotly debated in recent weeks.

Holt will handle the pivotal first Presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Sept. 26. This will be his first time moderating a General Election Presidential debate.

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump recently gave a thumbs-up to Holt, telling radio host Hugh Hewitt in an August interview that he thinks "Lester Holt is a good guy." Holt was the only name broached in the interview that Trump had unqualified praise for.

Raddatz and Cooper will team up to cover the town hall-style debate on Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis.

Raddatz was a Vice Presidential Debate moderator in 2012. Cooper was a moderator twice in Democratic Primary debates, as well as in several Town Hall events.

Wallace will moderate the third debate at UNLV in Las Vegas on Oct. 19. Wallace was part of the Fox News moderating team, along with Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly, that handled several GOP Primary debates.

Elaine Quijana of CBS News will moderate the only Vice Presidential debate on Oct. 4.











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