When vice presidential nominees Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) take to the debate stage Tuesday night time, they’ll be partly sharing the highlight with two of CBS’s main journalists.
The Paramount-owned community tapped veteran newscasters Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell to average Tuesday night’s clash, scheduled to air reside in prime time from New York Metropolis 5 weeks earlier than election day.
Brennan serves as moderator of “Face the Nation,” the community’s flagship Sunday morning public affairs program. O’Donnell has for the previous a number of years presided as anchor for “CBS Night Information,” a put up she will vacate on the finish of the 12 months.
The controversy moderators are prone to face intense scrutiny during and after the forum, which will probably be simulcast on different networks and seen by thousands and thousands on-line.
The pair will probably be watched intently over the questions they pose to the candidates, how properly they implement the agreed-upon rules for the talk and their willingness to push again on false or deceptive claims made on the stage.
Including warmth to the state of affairs is a promise on Monday by former President Trump, a frequent critic of the mainstream information media, to supply reside “play-by-play” commentary on the showdown on his Fact Social platform.
Vance, for his half, clashed with Brennan directly this summer season throughout an look on “Face the Nation” over his stance on international coverage and commerce. The Ohio Republican, like Trump, has made media criticism a staple of his stump speeches on the marketing campaign path this summer season.
Trump and his allies relentlessly attacked moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, two anchors for ABC Information after last month’s debate between the GOP nominee and Vice President Harris.
The previous president complained his debate with Harris that night time was “two-on-one” after Muir and Davis pushed again on his unfounded claims about immigrants and different points in actual time.
CBS executives told the New York Times this week Brennan and O’Donnell will give the candidates “the chance to fact-check one another in actual time.”
The community may even show a QR code within the nook of the display screen throughout the telecast Tuesday night time, directing viewers to CBS Information’s web site, the place a workforce of greater than a dozen journalists will probably be providing a debate fact-check in actual time.
How the community handles what could be the last debate of the presidential election cycle — as Trump has so far rejected invitations for a second forum towards Harris — additionally will probably be intently watched.
