The debate is from 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET Thursday. It‘s being held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn, and Kristen Welker of NBC News is moderating.
Trump is sticking to his habit of criticizing the moderator ahead of the debate.
“Welker’s been screaming questions at me for a long time. She’s no good,” Trump said.
Trump senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News’ in early October that he has a “very high opinion” of Welker and that “she’s a journalist whose very fair in her approach.”
The debate will be divided into six 15-minute segments. Each candidate will have two minutes of uninterrupted time at the beginning of each segment.
Welker released the tentative topics a week ahead of the debate. Not necessarily in this order, these are the topics:
Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, sent the debate commission a letter on Monday slamming it for not including a section on foreign policy. Stepien asked the commission to “rethink and reissue a set of topics” for the debate, with an emphasis on foreign policy.
