The angry exchanges between President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden made it a challenging evening for the "Fox News Sunday" anchor.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace was surprised by the ugly contentiousness of the first 2020 debate between President Trump and his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, on Tuesday, but he believes the clash still offered viewers plenty of insights about the two candidates.
"My initial reaction was, 'This is great. They're going to go at it, and I can take the evening off,'" Wallace said."But you know, it became clear at a certain point that the president wasn't planning to back off and was going to keep interrupting throughout the evening." "I think people will read into that what they want to," Wallace said."What was clear to me was he was given a direct opportunity several times by both me and by the vice president to call out the Proud Boys and white supremacists and he refused to do so."
"Trump never went to Plan B," Wallace said."He just stayed on Plan A the entire evening, and I don't think it served him especially well." Wallace, who anchors the weekly Washington roundtable program"Fox News Sunday," said he received accolades from his colleagues at Fox News and its parent, Fox Corp.
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