Three Debates With a Solo Moderator

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/02/three-debates-with-a-solo-moderator/

Three Debates With a Solo Moderator
September 2, 2020 at 12:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

President Trump and Joe Biden will debate with a single moderator at each of their three matchups, the New York Times reports.

The first on September 29 will be moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News.

The second on October 15 will be moderated by Steve Scully of C-SPAN.

The third on October 22 will be moderated by Kristen Welker of NBC News.

Meanwhile, the only vice presidential debate on October 7 will be moderated by Susan Page of USA Today.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. I am so disappointed

[Abnredleg]

2. Why? /NT

[slumcamper]

5. Could it possibly be that FOX is a divisive and toxic GOP propaganda machine?

Or, possibly, that the handlers of Chris Wallace (the REAL "dark forces" ) might craft questions behind the scenes that stack the deck with "gotcha" traps??



"Disappointed" is putting it mildly; Disappointed that the Biden camp agreed to this arrangement.

I'd add "suspicious."

[brooklynite]

9. You mean like the softball questions he threw at Trump four weeks ago?

Trump hates Wallace, and Wallace has shown he won't cave to Fox News leadership.

[babylonsister]

11. Chris Wallace can hold his own against mf45; he's proved

it time and again.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Off the top of my head

#1 If anyone is "undecided" at this point, they aren't waiting on a "debate" to make up their minds
#2 My grandmother always told me that when you wallow with pigs, you always get dirty
#3 OrangeAnus isn't worthy of being on the same stage as VP Biden
#4 The moderator is ALWAYS biased, and I have watched a lot of these
#5 VP is the frontrunner. He has nothing to gain.
I could go on and on, but I have to go eat supper.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Why? Debates do very little to change voters minds. Add that to a very small % of undecideds

It’s not going to shift anything

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-tv-debates-sway-voters

[babylonsister]

4. Yet there are some voters who pay no attention

until the debates.

[dubyadiprecession]

6. I'd cancel the debates if I were Biden...

Why give trump a platform to stroke his weird ego?

[brooklynite]

10. To give people a comparison.

[frazzled]

7. I'm sure that the respective news organizations

will be having input to the moderator's questions, for better or worse. It's not like the single moderator is flying totally solo. They're pretty much just hosts. Except for managing the time, etc. (which can be important), they're probably reading off a pre-ordained list of questions produced by a group.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Biden should simply respond

to tRump with Reagan's classic: "There you go again."

[captain queeg]

12. I think Biden should show up with his face painted orange.

Just kidding, but I hope they lay out some ground rules and enforce them

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

13. In August, Mr. Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, sent a list of 24 journalists

“for consideration” by the debate commission. Roughly 40 percent of his suggestions were affiliated with Fox News and Fox Business. Mr. Wallace’s name was not among them.

No one from Mr. Giuliani’s list was ultimately selected.

Hahahaaha

[SoonerPride]

15. Hahahahaha

[rockfordfile]

14. Should never be a fox news moderator for President debates.

[gratuitous]

17. I'm inclined to like one moderator better

When there are multiple moderators, especially those from rival employers, there's a tendency for them to step on each other in order to make the boss happy.

Thinking back to Biden's debate against Paul Ryan, Trump might consider having a real bad headache on the three dates. Biden will flash that Joey-the-Shark grin and carve up Trump's responses into such teeny tiny pieces that even Trump could hold them in just one of his teeny tiny hands.