Everyone knows how much is at stake for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during Tuesday's presidential debate, the only one they have scheduled during their compressed campaign.
It's not just Harris and Trump who have a lot at stake in next week's debate. ABC News does, tooFILE - ABC World News Tonight Anchor David Muir , left, addresses members of the audience while standing with ABC News Live Anchor Linsey Davis , Friday, Feb. 7, 2020 in Manchester, N.H. “I think a lot of people will be watching to see how nasty they are, how unfair they are,” he said Wednesday on a Fox News town hall.
It all had little effect on ABC's planning, said Rick Klein, the network's Washington bureau chief. “It truly wasn't a lot of turmoil on our end of things,” he said. An estimated 51.3 million people watched Biden and Trump in June. But that was before many people were truly tuned into the election, and the potential rematch of the 2020 campaign was drawing little enthusiasm. Tuesday's debate will almost certainly reach more people, whether or not it approaches the record debate audience of 84 million for the first face-off between Hillary Clinton and Trump in 2016.
Davis has a lower profile, though she hosts ABC's nightly streaming newscast, fills in for Muir and has moderated presidential nominating debates in the past. Many will be seeing her in action Tuesday for the first time. Wallace was well respected, considered even-handed and, in 2020 when he moderated the first Biden-Trump debate, was working at Fox News “so the Trump people couldn't accuse him of being a liberal hack," Bettag said. “And it stillcall for a candidate's microphone to be muted when their opponent is speaking, something Trump's campaign sought because interruptions turn many voters off.in her 2020 debate with Vice President Mike Pence. “Mr.
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