Chris Wallace is clearly still smarting over the disastrous first presidential debate last month, and said Thursday night that he’s “jealous” of final presidential debate moderator Kristen Welker and wishes he could have swapped places with her.
“First of all, I’m jealous,” Wallace told Fox’s chief political correspondent Bret Baier and anchor Martha MacCallum during the network’s post-debate coverage Thursday night. “I would’ve liked to have been able to moderate that debate and get a real exchange of views instead of hundreds of interruptions.”
“I thought it was a good debate, a good, substantive debate, two very competing visions for the country. I thought that Biden had many more specific plans,” he said. “I thought the President’s presentation was more fluid, there were clearly times when Joe Biden seemed to falter a little bit in making his point or finishing his sentence.”
In contrast to Thursday’s debate, the first presidential debate in Sept. was messy and chaotic, defined largely by Trump’s rude demeanor and constant interruptions — and Wallace’s apparent inability to make Trump respect the rules he’d agreed to in advance. Wallace’s impotent performance as moderator was widely panned, and the Presidential Debate Commission was forced to implement rules changes to ensure subsequent debates weren’t similar debacles.
Among them, at Thursday’s debate each candidate received two minutes of uninterrupted time per question, during which time their opponent’s mic was muted. That did a lot to rein Trump in, but Welker has also been praised for the way she handled the notoriously tough job of moderating.
Wallace was part of Fox News’ post-debate panel which included Brit Hume, Dana Perino, Juan Williams, Katie Pavlich, Donna Brazile, and Carl Rove, and during their discussion he said he thought the questions and the topics seemed to “played more to Biden’s advantage than they did to the President’s.”
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Watch Wallace’s full remarks in the clip above.
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With time running out for the President to gain Joe Biden in the polls, here are 33 of Trump’s celebrity fans rooting for the President to win a second term.
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Gary Busey, who appeared on the fourth season of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” still considers Donald Trump “one of his best friends.”
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Actor Stephen Baldwin constantly shows his support for President Trump on Twitter and most recently tweeted, #TRUMP2020ToSaveAmerica
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Former “Clueless” star Stacey Dash describes herself as one of the #WomenForTrump in her Twitter Bio.
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UFC President Dana White appeared at the 2020 Republic National Convention and said, “We need President Trump’s leadership, now more than ever.”
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“I think Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is doing a good job at trying to get these states — and all of the American people — what they need,” Dennis Quaid told the Daily Beast in April 2020.
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Comedian Roseanne Barr tweeted a picture of herself wearing a “Trump 2020” baseball cap with the caption, “2020 vision.”
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Former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Kristy Swanson in March tweeted, “An honor to meet you Mr. President.”
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Former NFL great Hershel Walker spoke at the RNC in August and tweeted, “TRUMP PENCE 2020”
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“Thank you for being the best President ever,” tweeted Diamond and Silk.
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Mariano Rivera, the Former Yankee pitcher who was awarded the Medal of Freedom from the President in 2019 said, “He’s doing the best for the United States.”
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Former “Entertainment Tonight” anchor Mary Hart hosted the President’s controversial July 4th celebration at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota back in July.
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“He is literally going to go down in history as one of our greatest Presidents,” said “Pawn Stars” Rick Harrison at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.
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NASCAR driver Corey LaJoie sported a “Trump 2020” on his car at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, back in July.
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UFC fighter Colby Covington recently supported the President on his Instagram saying, “Had a tremendous time yesterday with @erictrump & @carlos_e_gavidia at the MAGA Boat Parade in Miami!”
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