Anderson Cooper and Megyn Kelly Are Top Choices for Presidential Debate Moderator in New Poll

Morning Consult conducts a survey.

As the unduly long countdown to determining who will moderate the presidential debates continues, Morning Consult checked in with the people to see who they’d want serving questions to the candidates.

Out of a menu of 22 potential moderators, all either journalists or “television personalities,” CNN host Anderson Cooper topped the list, the pick of 34 percent of survey participants. Fox News host Megyn Kelly came in second, chosen by 25 percent of participants. Rounding out the top five were Fox News host Chris Wallace (22 percent), Former Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer (17 percent), and NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt (16 percent).

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