After both campaigns raised questions about moderator Candy Crowley’s role in Tuesday night’s town hall presidential debate, it has been decided that Crowley can ask follow-up questions, reports the Washington Post.
Representatives of the two campaigns agreed among themselves that they wanted Crowley’s role to be limited to merely directing questions to President Obama and Mitt Romney from audience members during the debate at Hofstra University in New York. But the debate commission and Crowley never agreed to such a stipulation, [debate co-chairman Frank] Fahrenkopf said; instead, Crowley will “facilitate discussion,” meaning she can address a candidate’s answer after an audience member has asked his or her question, though she cannot introduce a new topic.
