“Please!” Trump Anchor’s repentance … “I didn’t even know in my dreams this would happen”

Chris Wallace Fox News anchor for the first televised debate on the 2020 United States presidential candidate. [AP=연합뉴스]

The first television debate on the candidate for the US presidential election on the 29th (local time), which was evaluated as the worst of all. One person who was just as confused as the viewers who watched the broadcast was host Chris Wallace, Fox News host. He said in an interview with The New York Times (NYT) on the 30th, “I didn’t even dream of deviating in this way.”

Wallace Anchor returned to his home in Maryland and said he was “introspectively.” In an interview with NYT, he admitted that it did not go well and said it was “a terrible missed opportunity.”

He said he did not expect President Donald Trump to impede progress until the end of the debate. When I was in charge of conducting a television debate between Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, it was not so much.

Wallace said, “This is the debate!” When President Trump intervenes in response to Democrat Biden at the beginning of the debate. He said there was also an expectation to think, “Today will be great.” However, he explained that President Trump was increasingly vigilant as he showed no signs of retreating.

Wallace said, “If I hadn’t tried to take control of the debate, I was completely out of line,” he said. “I don’t know if I took the lead at least once.”

In the first televised debate of the 2020 US presidential election, President Donald Trump and Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden fought a tough battle. [로이터=연합뉴스]

When the two candidates’ comments became tangled and confusing, Wallace anchored his first warning, saying, “Don’t bother,” then appealed “Please follow the rules” and “This is not a service for this country.” Finally, he shouted: “Gentlemen, please shut up”, and warned: “I did not want to raise my voice, but I cannot continue in this way.”

But it was already at the end of the discussion. Wallace explained the background behind the late intervention, saying, “Looking back, it was President Trump’s strategy to take the whole debate that way, not just at the beginning, but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know it.”

Some criticized Wallace for being too late to intervene and for not ordering the debate. Some pointed out that even turning off the mic, they should have strictly responded.

In response, Wallace said, “Even if you turn off President Trump’s microphone, the sound of candidate Biden’s microphone can be heard, and cutting off the presidential candidate’s audio supply is inappropriate because it is an act that may have a longer wavelength. “People forget it, but you have to remember that both candidates have the support of tens of millions of Americans.”

During the first television debate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, President Donald Trump and Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden fought a tough fight. [로이터=연합뉴스]

Conservatives complained that Wallace loved Biden too much. A conservative commentator claimed on Twitter that while Wallace detained Trump 76 times, he detained Biden only 15 times. According to Washington Post statistics, the number of times President Trump interfered with the other party in the 90-minute debate was 71, more than Biden’s (22).

It was argued that Wallace helped when Biden’s response was blocked, and that he did not push further even if he responded vaguely. Republican Senator Ted Cruz appeared on a radio run by conservative commentator Hewitt and said, “When President Trump asked Biden to name the law enforcement agency that expressed his support,” Biden hesitated. “Stop and go to the next question.”

“Wallace threw a lifeline at Biden,” Hewitt said. “It seemed like President Trump was fighting two against one.” “I think Wallace will vote for Biden,” Cruise added. President Trump also wrote on Twitter on the 30th: “The 2v1 comp was neither surprising nor fun.”

Wallace belongs to Fox News, a conservative outlet, but is known as a Democrat. In a 2006 Washington Post interview, he began with a pragmatic desire to participate in grassroots elections and became a member of the party, and in the presidential election he announced that he would vote for both Democrats and Republicans.

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace was the first host of the 2020 US presidential election television debate. He admitted not having adequately controlled President Trump. [EPA=연합뉴스]

Wallace, 72, is a veteran journalist with 50 years of experience. After graduating from Harvard University, he began working as a journalist at the Boston Globe, but by 1964, as a teenager, he was already an intern at legendary CBS News host Walter Cronkite. His father is reporter Mike Wallace, who was active as an investigative reporter on the current affairs show ’60 Minutes’.

After passing through NBC and ABC News, he moved to Fox News in 2003. As the host of the Sunday current affairs show ‘Meet the Press’ on NBC and ‘Fox News Sunday’ on Fox News, he earned a reputation primarily by interviewing. to government and political officials. His career in conducting television debates for presidential candidates is also brilliant.

“I am a professional, but I have never experienced anything like this,” he said. “Because I’ve done the best I could, I don’t think about anything else.” Still, he lamented, “but I was disappointed with the results. I am disappointed in myself and especially in the country.”

He told C-SPAN reporter Steve Scully and NBC News reporter Christine Welker, who are preparing to be selected as presenters for the second and third televised debates, “If either candidate shows signs of departure, I hope they find out. the situation before me. ” The advertisement.

The United States Presidential Debating Committee (CDP), which hosts the presidential debate, announced that it will announce the measures in the near future, and said it will change the format of the second and third debates for an orderly debate.

Washington = Correspondent Park Hyun-young [email protected]