The first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden likely will be the most watched political event of the cycle so far, but it’s the aftermath of…
, setting a record. Given the stakes this time around, there’s similar expectation of a blockbuster audience. The election has been framed as the most important of our lifetimes, but voters also are less undecided, more polarized and probably pretty exhausted.
That will leave the fact-checking to the media, and they will get to work soon after the debate is over. CNN’s Daniel Dale has been doing it for some time, and it’s expected to be a centerpiece of post-debate analysis on other networks as well. Schroeder considers what happened that year as a “cautionary example” of what happened when a moderator serves as a kind of umpire.
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