NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker was widely praised for her performance moderating the final presidential debate between President Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden Thursday, following a week of Trump waging attacks against her.
The next question out of Welker’s mouth when McEnany goes on one of her 'blame the press ’ rants should be, “Where’s my apology?”
has a plan to reunite the children with their parents, to which Trump replied “yes, we’re trying very hard.”
By “trying very hard” he means releasing “some” records only after a court order.
So, thats the Jam? God, I hate Dems except when I love them.
Find the kids? This dude couldn’t find his car keys.
If he was allowed to drive anything but a golf cart.
I didn’t think Welker was good. Any moderator who allowed Trump to force feed Hunter Biden for seemingly 30 minutes didn’t do her job. She basically ran that debate as if she were Chuck Todd doing a Meet The Press show. In other words, it wasn’t very good. She didn’t crap the bed like Wallace and Page, but that was not good moderating.
The difference was Trump, not the moderator. In the first debate he believed he could elicit stumbling and stuttering from Biden with constant interruptions, allowing his campaign to build on the dementia theme. That didn’t work, so Trump was back to his normal
Which is essentially his campaign stump speech, inclusive of all the lies and fantasy, which the rubes eat up, but does not play well on a national stage.
I bet he was disappointed he couldn’t slide a few bars of “Lock Her Up” in somewhere
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God bless John Heilemann
However… take away his blustering bravado and his fire and brimstone belching … he is just a crotchety old fat guy with a bunch of complaints and no solutions.
Weak … low energy… flaccid old grump.
You may be in the minority on this.
At any rate I thought she did a pretty good job, given the rules.
Sorry – not following – can you elaborate?
Thanks.
By 10:00 this morning they will have realized that he did not, in fact, change the race completely and will be claiming that she was totally unfair and that he would have been muted the entire time if it weren’t for the Trump staffer who was supervising the muting.
She was better than wallace by a long shot. there was a few times when trump rolled over her and she let him get in the last word when Biden’s was done. she should have moved on to the next question forcefully. I think that happened 4 or 5 times.
I give her credit though, nothing tougher than telling a temperamental brat to stand in the corner and shut up.
It’s one thing to tell a temperamental brat to shut up, and quite another to have the brat actually do it.
Objectively, yes, but the Trump-bar is so low that keeping him to less than a dozen flung feces is worthy of praise which is what she rightfully earned.
I have been looking for the rundown of how many minutes each candidate got to speak. It did seem to me that drump got many more “10 seconds” (20 seconds) than Biden.
Agreed. She found her feet in the last half hour, but she let Trump walk all over her for most of the debate. Her questions were good, but she was mostly incapable of stopping him from blathering endlessly.
I think this is right. Quite possible that Kristen Welker did a better job, but I’m sure that Team Trump came in with a different M.O. Impossible to really know how to call this one.