Kristen Welker will host the final presidential debate showdown Thursday, though it appears that President Donald Trump may spar with her almost as much as he will with his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
The NBC News White House correspondent and “Weekend Today” co-anchor will moderate the debate at Belmont University in Nashville (9 EDT/6 PDT). The second presidential debate was axed after Trump declined to participate virtually, following his COVID-19 diagnosis. Instead, he and Biden held dueling town halls , and the former vice president beat Trump in the Nielsen ratings.
Welker, a target of Trump’s Twitter rage last week, will be the first Black woman to moderate a presidential debate in nearly 30 years. (Journalist Carole Simpson moderated the face-off between George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot in 1992.)