President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued his attack on debate moderator Kristen Welker, calling her “very unfair” and saying he’s facing a “stacked deck.”
Trump made the comments during an appearance on Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
Welker, an NBC News correspondent, is scheduled to moderate Thursday’s second and last session between Trump and Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Trump last weekend tweeted that Welker has “always been terrible and unfair, just like most of the Fake News reporters.”
On Tuesday, he said Welker was “terrible” and “totally partisan.”
“I mean she is totally partisan; her father and mother are big supporters of Joe Biden for a long time,” he told Fox. “They're supporters of the Democrat Party, and she deleted her entire account.”
Each candidate will have their microphones muted when their opponents speak for the first two minutes of each segment of the debate.
Trump has taken issue with the rules, saying the Commission on Presidential Debates “has lost tremendous credibility.”
Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller earlier this month commended Welker’s fair reporting, telling Fox News he has a “very high opinion” of her and thinks “she’s going to do an excellent job as the moderator for the third debate.”
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