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Major-party nominees President Trump and Joe Biden are debating for the first time tonight.
When: Watch the debate live here beginning at 9 p.m. ET.
Where: Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland.
Who: Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace is moderating.
What: The topics selected by Wallace are the candidates’ records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in U.S. cities, and the integrity of the election.
Moderator Chris Wallace Says He Aims To Be ’Invisible’
Don’t expect moderator Chris Wallace to do a lot of real-time fact-checking tonight.
He said so himself.
“My job is to be as invisible as possible,” he said Sunday on Fox News.
It’s a point he’s made in the past. “I do not believe it is my job to be a truth squad,” he said ahead of a 2016 general election debate he moderated (and for which he received plaudits).
The host of Fox News Sunday garnered praise for an interview with President Trump in July, in which he vigorously fact-checked the president’s coronavirus response.
Wallace has the backing of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Its co-chair, Frank Fahrenkopf, said on CNN recently: “We don’t expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact-checkers.”
That’s a stance that may frustrate Joe Biden’s campaign as their candidate prepares to debate Trump, who regularly exaggerates and tells demonstrable falsehoods. Biden adviser Symone Sanders said on a call with reporters today: “It is not Joe Biden’s job in this debate to fact-check Donald Trump. That’s the moderator’s job.”
When: Watch the debate live here beginning at 9 p.m. ET.
Where: Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland.
Who: Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace is moderating.
What: The topics selected by Wallace are the candidates’ records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in U.S. cities, and the integrity of the election.
Moderator Chris Wallace Says He Aims To Be ’Invisible’
Don’t expect moderator Chris Wallace to do a lot of real-time fact-checking tonight.
He said so himself.
“My job is to be as invisible as possible,” he said Sunday on Fox News.
It’s a point he’s made in the past. “I do not believe it is my job to be a truth squad,” he said ahead of a 2016 general election debate he moderated (and for which he received plaudits).
The host of Fox News Sunday garnered praise for an interview with President Trump in July, in which he vigorously fact-checked the president’s coronavirus response.
Wallace has the backing of the Commission on Presidential Debates. Its co-chair, Frank Fahrenkopf, said on CNN recently: “We don’t expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact-checkers.”
That’s a stance that may frustrate Joe Biden’s campaign as their candidate prepares to debate Trump, who regularly exaggerates and tells demonstrable falsehoods. Biden adviser Symone Sanders said on a call with reporters today: “It is not Joe Biden’s job in this debate to fact-check Donald Trump. That’s the moderator’s job.”