Chris Wallace: "My job is to be as invisible as possible" moderating the first Trump-Biden debate

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“One of these two people is going to be the next president of the United States and my job is to be as invisible as possible,” the Fox News Sunday anchor said during a preview for the Donald Trump-Joe Biden debate Monday on Fox News. “I’m trying to get them to engage to focus on the key issues, to give people at home a sense of why I want to vote for one vs. the other, but if I’ve done my job right, at the end of the night people will say, ‘That was a great debate. Who was the moderator?'” Don't expect Wallace to do any fact-checking, either. Before moderating a 2016 debate, Wallace caused a minor stir when he said: “I do not believe it is my job to be a truth squad. It’s up to the other person to catch them on that.” He also said back in 2016 that he didn't want the debate to be turned into a "TV show." “I take it very seriously,” Wallace said on his Sunday show ahead of the Trump-Clinton showdown. “This is not a TV show. This is part of civics, the constitution, if you will, in action, because this is helping millions of people decide who we’re going to elect as the next president.”

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