Who is Norah O’Donnell, the moderator of the Walz - Vance VP debate? Career, family, net worth...
CBS is hosting the first and only 2024 debate between the vice presidential candidates. There will be two moderators. Here’s a look at Norah O’Donnell.
Tuesday, October 1, the running mates of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will have their one and only chance to go head-to-head on the debate stage. The encounter between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and JD Vance will most likely be the last time voters get a chance to compare the policy differences between the Democratic and Republican campaigns this year.
That’s because the GOP presidential candidate, former President Trump, said that it was “just too late” for another matchup between him and his opponent. The first debate between him and the sitting vice president was a fiery affair that polling afterwards showed Harris handily won.
While Trump still professes to have won, he claims that the debate, hosted by ABC, was three-on-one since the moderators were debunking some of his absurd falsehoods in real time. Some of those included saying that some states allow abortions even after a baby is born and that immigrants were stealing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.
CBS, who is hosting the event on Tuesday, has instructed the moderators not to perform on the spot corrections of the candidates during the VP debate between Walz and Vance. The rest of the setup will be much the same as the ABC presidential debate otherwise, with no studio audience, lasting 90 minutes and two moderators, Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell.
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Who is Norah O’Donnell, the moderator of the Walz - Vance VP debate? Career, family, net worth...
O’Donnell attended Georgetown University and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a master’s in Liberal Studies. She has had a more than two decade career in broadcast journalism.
After getting her start as a staff writer for Roll Call, where she covered Congress, she went on to work at NBC networks for twelve years. O’Donnell is currently the anchor and managing editor of the ‘CBS Evening News’, a role she took on in 2019.
This will be the Emmy-winner’s eighth time moderating a major debate. Four years ago, O’Donnell moderated the vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.
Her current role at CBS, which includes being a contributing correspondent for ‘60 Minutes’ and host of CBS News 24/7′s ‘Person to Person’, earns her a salary of $8 million per year according to Celebrity Net Worth. The outlet says that O’Donnell has a net worth of $22 million.
She has been married since 2001 to a Washington DC restaurateur Geoff Tracy, whom she meet when they were both attending Georgetown University. The couple has three teenage children, a pair of fraternal twins and a second daughter.