10/23/2020 3:11 AM
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Updated 10/23/2020 7:10 AM
The moderator of the last presidential debate in the United States,
Kristen Welker
, was the most praised of the night on social networks, although she was helped by the fact that the president, Donald Trump, was much more content and that the microphones could be muted .
Even Trump, who regularly criticizes NBC News - where Welker works - and had accused that journalist of being "terrible and unfair" with him,
praised the job the moderator did
, considering it "very professional."
"By the way, I respect very much the way you are handling this, I have to say it," Trump also told Welker in the middle of the face-to-face with the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, held in Nashville (Tennessee).
Welker was the
second black woman
to moderate a presidential debate in US history: the first was Carole Simpson, who did so in 1992.
The journalist and moderator Kristen Welker exchanges words with Joe Biden during the last presidential debate between the Democratic candidate and Donald Trump.
/ Photo Jim WATSON / AFP /
The 44-year-old journalist, who has been a
White House correspondent for NBC News
since 2011
, asked the candidates about immigration, racism, climate change, the covid-19 pandemic and the integrity of the elections, among other topics, and the The debate went much more
fluidly
than the one held almost a month ago.
The moderator of that first face-to-face in Cleveland (Ohio), the journalist Chris Wallace, confessed this Thursday that he was envious of the exchange that Welker had to moderate, while his was
plagued with interruptions
, most of them Trump.
"I'm jealous, I would have liked to moderate that debate," Wallace said in statements to the network where he works, Fox News.
This debate was expected to be more civilized because the Presidential Debate Commission - the organizers of the meeting - had announced that it would
silence the candidates' microphones
in certain parts to avoid chaos.
At the beginning of each of the six segments, each candidate had two minutes to present their arguments without interruption, while their rival had the microphone turned off, something that
many users celebrated
on social networks.
"I must admit that the fact that there was a mute button and having a good moderator made the debate enjoyable to watch," wrote a user named Mike Watson on his official Twitter account.
Source: EFE
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