HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will air tonight. Polls show an increasingly tight race between Democrat Clinton and Republican Trump.
Professor of Political Science at Hope College Dr. David Ryden says 100 million people watching the debate is unprecedented and all eyes will be on Trump tonight, mostly watching to see how Trump is going to behave.
” Substance, issues, policy will matter only in the regard in whether Donald Trump is able to meet the sort of the low expectations of some kind of threshold grasp of policy detail.” Dryden says.
When it comes to moderator Lester Holt of NBC News, Dryden says it’s not the moderators job to be a fact checker. ” I think the moderator wants to be tough,you want to make sure you get real answers and try to pin them down on some detail. But the job of the moderator is not to fact check. The parties and the campaigns will be spinning all these answers as soon as the debate in done and in the weeks ahead when ads will be run. That the appropiate time and place to do that.” Dryden told WHTC News.
The primetime debate begins at 9 p.m. Eastern Time
