As Fox News continues preparations for the first 2024 Republican Presidential Debate, one question persists: Will Donald Trump show up? While there is no definitive answer, debate moderator Martha MacCallum shared in an interview with Deadline that she doesn’t mind criticism about her performance, as long as it is valid and warranted.
“Everybody has the right to say, ‘I don’t think that’s a fair question’ — anything along those lines. So as long as the criticism or the attack … is fair, I don’t have any problem with that,” Martha MacCallum said. “When it steps beyond that, then I think that is not a positive for anything about the process or the debate. So I have no problem about the work that we do. I feel very strongly about our reputation.”
She continued by noting the belief she holds in her colleagues.
“I have always has a great amount of confidence in our team. That has never wavered. I had confidence in our team in 2020, and I have it in our team today. This is not something that I lose too much sleep over.”
MacCallum’s co-moderator for the event, Bret Baier, has been the subject of attacks from former President Donald Trump after a sit-down interview earlier this summer. However, Baier says he is unaffected by the critiques.
“[Trump] chooses to do his attacks the way he does,” he said. “We choose to do our side — we have a news side and opinion side. The news side is going to do stories that he doesn’t like, but it’s the news. So you take it with a grain of salt, and you keep moving and if you build it, they will come. I think they will come.”
