NEW YORK -- On Monday afternoon, ABC News' Martha Raddatz took a break from preparing to moderate this week's vice presidential debate to tweet a photo of herself recently aboard a fighter jet. That flight, she wrote, "was good warmup" for steering the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
But while a fighter pilot took the reins during that trip, Raddatz be flying solo Thursday, assuming the moderator seat just a week after PBS veteran Jim Lehrer took heavy fire from critics for not tightly controlling the first presidential debate. Lehrer defended his performance Friday, telling The Huffington Post that his role was to get out of the way and let the candidates challenge one another.
Moderating at this level will be a new experience for Raddatz and a departure from Lehrer, who just wrapped up his 12th such debate and literally wrote the book on the subject. Raddatz, 59, once moderated a Ted Kennedy debate during her Boston reporting days, but has never handled a presidential or vice presidential contest played out before millions.
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