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The moderator of the last presidential debate in the United States, Kristen welker, was the most praised of the night on social networks, although it helped the fact that the president, Donald trump, it was much more contained and that the microphones could be muted.
Even Trump, who regularly criticizes the chain NBC News -where Welker works- and he had accused that journalist of being “terrible and unfair” with him, he praised at the end of the debate the work that the moderator did, considering it “very professional”.
“By the way, I very much respect the way you are handling this, I have to say it”, Trump also told Welker in the middle of the face-to-face with the Democratic candidate, Joe biden, held in Nashville (Tennessee).
Welker was the second black woman to moderate a presidential debate in US history: the first was Carole simpson, which he did in 1992.
The 44-year-old journalist, who is a correspondent for NBC News Before the White House since 2011, he asked the candidates about immigration, racism, climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and the integrity of the elections, among other topics, and the debate went much more fluidly than the one held almost ago. one month.
The moderator of that first face to face in Cleveland (Ohio), the journalist Chris Wallace, confessed this Thursday that he gave envy the exchange that Welker had to moderate, while his was plagued with interruptions, mostly from Trump.
“I’m jealous, I would have liked to moderate that debate”Wallace said in statements to the network where he works, Fox News.
This debate was expected to be more civilized because the Presidential Debate Commission – the organizers of the meeting – had announced that it would silence the candidates’ microphones in certain parts to avoid chaos.
At the beginning of each of the six segments, each candidate had two minutes to present their arguments without interruption, while their rival had the microphone turned off, something that many users celebrated on social networks.
