Fox’s Chris Wallace to moderate presidential debate at UNLV

LOS ANGELES — Chris Wallace will moderate the final presidential debate, which is scheduled to take place Oct. 19 on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. Wallace is the anchor of “Fox Sunday News.”

NBC News anchor Lester Holt will moderate the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, set for Sept. 26.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and ABC News’ Martha Raddatz are set to moderate the second face-off between the Democratic and Republican candidates. CBS News correspondent and CBSN anchor Elaine Quijano will preside over the vice presidential debate on Oct. 4.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonpartisan group that organizes the events, said that Steve Scully, senior executive producer, White House and political editor for C-SPAN Networks, will serve as back-up moderator for all four debates.

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Holt will be at the helm of the first Clinton-Trump meeting, a debate that is expected to draw unusually high ratings because of the unconventional nature of the 2016 campaign. The candidates will meet on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Democratic vice president pick Tim Kaine, a senator from Virginia, and Republican vice president contender Mike Pence, governor of Indiana, will meet at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. The selection of Quijano marks the first time an anchor from a digital news network has been tapped for one of the commission’s debate assignments.

Clinton and Trump will gather again Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis for a debate held in a town-meeting format at Washington University. Cooper and Raddatz, chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of “This Week,” will moderate that session.

“These journalists bring extensive experience to the job of moderating, and understand the importance of using expanded time periods effectively,” said Frank Fahrenkopf and Michael McCurry, co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates. “The formats chosen for this year’s debates are designed to build on the formats introduced in 2012, which focused big blocks of time on major domestic and foreign topics. We are grateful for their willingness to moderate, and confident that the public will learn more about the candidates and the issues as a result.”