The Biden campaign also released a statement saying the Democratic candidate “hopes to participate in the debate determined by the commission regardless of who the independently chosen moderators are.”
The choice of Mr. Valace Lace could dismiss Mr. Trump, who has criticized Fox News anchor coverage in the past, although the president also sat down with him for an interview at the White House in July. At a rally in New Hampshire last week, Mr. Trump taunted Mr. Wallace for his “lack of talent,” and compared the anchor to his father, the “60 Minutes” legend Mike Wallace, who died in 2012.
In August, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Rudolf W. Giulini sent a list of 24 journalists “for consideration” by the Debate Commission. About 40 percent of his suggestions were related to Fox News and the Fox business. Mr. Wallace’s name was not among them.
None of Mr. Giulia’s list was ultimately selected.
CNN No reporter – a news organization that is arguably the most targeted by Mr. Trump’s attacks on journalists – has been cut this year. Anderson Cooper, an anchor for the network, served as co-moderator in 2016.
Mr. Scully, C-SpAN, is a respected broadcaster known for its network coverage that rewards non-partisanship over scholarship. (He will be familiar to some viewers from his call-in program, the Washington Washington Journal, in which he listens to callers expressing long political views.)
After ABC’s Carol Simpson in 1992, NBC News’ Ms. Welker is the second black woman journalist to serve as a solo mediator in the presidential debate; She has been reporting to the White House since 2011. Mrs. Page of USA Today is a White House PTA journalist who has covered six presidential administrations and written a biography of Barbara Bush.
Each discussion is 90 minutes long and pre-airs air at 9 a.m., with no breaks for commercials. Through the campaign’s largest live audience, an average of three million people watched three matchups between Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
