How Did Lester Holt Do?

Assessing Lester Holt's turn as debate moderator.

As presidential debate moderator Lester Holt spoke last night to the live audience ahead of the network broadcasts, he warned about the “awkward moments of silence that are going to happen as the networks begin their coverage.”

And in those moments of silence, in the debate hall and the press file rooms, it was at first, as promised, awkward, but as the initial minute or so of it passed, the quality of the silence changed, morphing into anticipation, but without specific expectation.

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