Who is debate moderator Kristen Welker?
KRISTEN Welker is a political journalist who’s an NBC News White House correspondent as well as a Weekend Today co-anchor.
She will moderate the third presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22.
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Kristen Welker is an unregistered political broadcast journalist [/caption]Who is Kristen Welker?
Kristen Welker, the NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of Weekend Today, will moderate the third and final presidential debate on October 22 in Nashville.
She is a White House correspondent for NBC and a Weekend Today co-anchor[/caption]Her “hard-hitting political reporting appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, TODAY, Meet the Press and NBCNews.com,” according to her online bio.
She began covering the White House for NBC News in December 2011, traveling with former President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and Biden.
Is she married?
A native of Philadelphia, Welker lives in Washington, DC, with her husband John Hughes.
Hughes is a marketing director at Merck in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Welker married John Hughes in 2017[/caption]The couple wed in 2017.
“I hope my story inspires people to keep an open mind, and never give up hope that they’ll meet someone,” she told the New York Times later that year.
When is the next presidential debate?
The next presidential debate will be held on October 22.
The presidential hopefuls will have their mics muted while their rival delivers their opening two-minute answer to each topic.
News of the rule change came three days before the final presidential debate, which will be held in Nashville, Tennessee.
Welker will moderate the third presidential debate between Trump and Biden[/caption]Following the announcement, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien drew scrutiny on the change.
“President Trump is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last-minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate,” Stepien read from a statement.
The debate will see the pair battle it out on topics such as Covid, American families, national security, leadership, climate change and race.
Trump tweeted that “She’s always been terrible & unfair, just like most of the Fake News reporters, but I’ll still play the game.”
Trump also slammed Welker as a “dyed-in-the-wool, radical left Democrat,” however NBC told Politico that she has not had any party affiliation since she registered to vote in 2012.
When is the election?
Election day is on November 3.
Election day is the first Tuesday in November[/caption]Most read in US News
The US 2020 election is determined by the popular vote within the states and the electoral college; once votes are in, the president is announced that night or the following morning.
The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.