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Trump wants two particular Fox News hosts to moderate the debate he says he will engage in with Kamala Harris. We don't know if she will accept this. Her most recent response is as follows:
Perhaps Harris should rethink her decision on this but insist on some changes.
I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest. The FoxNews Debate will be held in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a site in an area to be determined. The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, and the Rules will be similar to the Rules of my Debate with Sleepy Joe, who has been treated horribly by his Party – BUT WITH A FULL ARENA AUDIENCE!….
I did a web search on whether these two hosts were considered biased. There are many articles about this but the one shown below provides a good summary of the analysis offered in the other articles.
Fox News anchors Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier are major vectors of misinformation
The article begins:
Though framed by Fox as “straight news” anchors, Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum have allowed misinformation and conspiracy theories to spread on their shows for years. They were both involved in boosting Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, and Baier in particular allowed guests to spew false claims about the election on the air despite privately admitting that there was no foul play or fraud behind the results.
I assume that Kamala Harris will accept this offer although she might demand that since Trump has selected two of the Fox News moderators it is only fair that she select one of them. I thought that among the stable of Fox News hosts there had to be a least biased one.
The article listed Geraldo Rivera as the least despicable.
John Roberts (above) was second. This is what Slate said about him:
John Roberts. The network’s former White House correspondent was bumped up to a hosting role this year, apparently because Fox executives decided that Steve Doocy’s handsome tall son Peter would be better at asking trollish and irrelevant questions during Biden administration press briefings. Roberts is an actual reporter whose resume includes long stints at CBS and CNN, and he occasionally got very frustrated at the evasive maneuvering of the Trump administration. Roberts has gravitas, perspective, and credibility, and to my mind he is the clear and obvious choice to fill Wallace’s chair. The fact that he would work well in the role is probably exactly why he won’t get it.
I think that too much is made of the influence moderators have on how debates go. The candidates can, and often have, ignored their questions and in the case of Trump their often feeble attempts at fact checking. If Kamala is asked an attempt at a gotcha question based on a lie or distortion she can quickly call it out as such and then take the rest of her time to address Trump's prior response or another subject.
Harris is not there to debate the moderators and she might have to make that clear in no uncertain terms.
Trump demanded what he called "a full arena audience" in the only all caps part of his post. This shows how important he thinks this is. What he means by an arena would have to be defined.
If it is any larger than the venues used for other debates Kamala can poo-poo this and accept the demand as long as the audience can include an equal number of supporters for both sides and strictly enforced rules against vocal responses during the debate. If the moderators can't control these they should make sure that the time lost was deducted from that person's next chance to speak.
Prior to the debate no doubt Trump will be hearing a lot about Kamala's career as a prosecutor. He won't be reading articles like this where she was called a ruthless cop, but there's a good chance he will see ads where her record prosecuting criminals like him is touted as they will air on Fox News.
Trump, being Trump, will think he can easily take her on despite this but like everyone he has an unconscious. This will result in dangerous overconfidence and leave him vulnerable to letting his guard down so she can exploit his weaknesses. As successful proecutors do, she can set a trap which a cocky criminal walks right into.
Trump likes to quote cannibal Hannibal Lector saying he was going to have a friend for dinner. Trump is certainly no friend of Kamala Harris, but I think she's the one who is going to have him for dinner if or when she debates him.
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