First Vice Presidential Debate Moderator

The 2020 united states presidential debates between joe biden and donald trump the major candidates in the 2020 united states presidential election are being sponsored by the commission on presidential debates cpd.

First vice presidential debate moderator. She is the first print reporter to handle a televised presidential or vice presidential debate since 1976 when james hoge then editor of the chicago sun times moderated the matchup of vp contenders walter mondale and robert dole. Is an american journalist and biographer and the current chief of usa today s washington office. The debate last week between the two vice presidential candidates the first such session in the nation s history turned out to be a tart and often engrossing display of political theater a. On wednesday night at the vice presidential debate between mike pence and kamala harris those critics will get their wish.

Who is vice presidential debate moderator susan page. One debate between the vice presidential candidates mike pence and kamala harris took place on october 7 2020. Susan page the washington bureau chief for usa today and a longtime member of the dc press corps will be the moderator at wednesday s debate between vice president mike pence and sen. The candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one hour speech then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half hour response.

The moderator susan page the white house bureau chief of usa today. This election s presidential and vice presidential debates have chewed up moderators. The moderators for the vice presidential debate and the three presidential debates which include fox news own chris wallace who moderated the first debate were selected by the. The moderator will ask an opening question after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond.

She was born on february 12 1951 in wichita kansas. The debate will be divided into nine segments of approximately 10 minutes each. Senate were true face to face debates with no moderator. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.

The first debate took place on september 29 2020.