Debating the Debate Fact-Check

In an interview on Reliable Sources Sunday, Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, came out decidedly against the moderator fact-checking a debate, telling Brian Stelter that while it is ultimately up to Holt to decide what he wants to do, “in our history, the moderators have found it appropriate to allow the candidates to be the ones that talk about the accuracy or the fairness of what the other candidate or candidates might have said.”

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