Tonight’s debate will be moderated by ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime presenter Linsey Davis.
Below you will find more information about each of them.
David Muir
Muir, 50, has been with ABC since 2003 and hosts ABC World News Tonight since 2014. In 2016 and 2020 he moderated primary election debates for the network.
Muir has also conducted interviews with politicians from both sides of the political spectrum, including an interview in June with President Biden for the network’s D-Day coverage. Muir conducted the first joint interview with then-Vice President Biden and his running mate, then-Senator Kamala Harris, weeks before the 2020 election.
He was also the first journalist to interview Trump as president in the White House in 2017.
Linsey Davis
Davis, 46, has worked at ABC since 2007 and moderated the Democratic presidential primaries in 2019 and 2020.
But she is less well known than Muir, who is the presenter of ABC News Live Primethe network’s daily streaming news, and ABC World News Tonight on sunday.
Davis has interviewed dozens of politicians, including Harris and former Vice President Mike Pence, and numerous celebrities. According to her official biography on ABC’s website, Davis “was granted the only interview with comedian Bill Cosby in the wake of dozens of sexual assault allegations.”
