NEW YORK—Everyone’s aware of the stakes for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the first presidential debate, but there’s a third person in the equation who faces a different pressure: Lester Holt. In a reflection of the attention that will be paid to Holt, his voter registration became an issue last week. Like the moderators for all three presidential debates this fall, it’s Holt’s first time in that role for a general election debate. Asked about the misstatement on Monday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC that it wasn’t a lie because Trump didn’t know Holt’s voter registration. The television industry will be watching to see if Monday’s debate can smash the previous record for the biggest presidential debate audience, the 80.6 million people who watched the only debate of the 1980 campaign between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

Source: thestar September 26, 2016 19:07 UTC