2020 US Elections: Donald Trump Heats Up The Election Debate By Describing The Moderator As A "Radical Democratic Leftist"

Donald Trump has accused of being a “radical democratic leftist” the NBC journalist who in the early morning -Spanish- from this Thursday to Friday will moderate the second electoral debate between the president and the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden. It should be remembered that Trump already charged the moderator of the first debate, Chris Wallace, whom he came to describe as “the best of the Biden debate.” Now he has said of Welker, a day before the debate, that “he has been yelling at me you ask for a long time and it’s not good. On Tuesday, she returned to the attack, stressing that the parents of this journalist who has covered the White House since 2011 – the first black woman to lead a presidential debate since 1992 – were fervent Democrats, but in January Trump did congratulate Welker on her appointment. as co-host of the weekend morning show on NBC. “They made a very wise decision,” he estimated. The Philadelphia-born journalist immediately reacted by asking for an interview she never got. Welker is currently not politically affiliated and never made a donation to a party, although in 2012 she was registered as a Democrat. The 44-year-old journalist is to take over from Steve Scully, appointed moderator of the second presidential debate scheduled for October 15. But the duel was canceled when Trump, then sick with coronavirus, refused to accept a virtual format, Scully was later suspended by the C-SPAN network after lying about a tweet linked to the president that he gave to Trump, used to denigrating the media. , a new opportunity to question his supposed bias.Trump questions Welker because he deactivated his own Twitter account for a few hours following Scully’s tweet saying that his account had been hacked (which was false, as the journalist later admitted). NBC said that the suspension of Welker’s account was For security reasons, not to hide anything she may have written in the past, the journalist known for her incisive questions and calm tone, who is used to political interviews, succeeds Chris Wallace, overwhelmed by Trump’s repeated interruptions in the first debate on September 29, which turned into a boxing. This time, Welker will be able to cut the microphone of the candidate who does not officially have the floor, which will facilitate the task of the moderator at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee where the debate will take place The journalist, known for her capacity for work, chose the six main topics of the debate, as tradition indicates. They are fighting the coronavirus, American families, race, climate change and national security. “I told her to be herself,” her mother, Julie Welker, told the local Philadelphia Tribune newspaper. «She is a formidable journalist. Its objective is that the truth be known and told. And it will be very equitable in its handling of the debate.