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Karin Kamp - Missing From the Debates: Climate Change, Poverty, Campaign Finance and More

If you plan to tune in tonight to watch the final presidential debate, you probably won’t hear anything about some of our country’s most pressing concerns, like climate change, poverty and campaign finance. Again.

The final debate will be moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, who has announced he will ask questions on debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and the candidates’ fitness to be president (push-ups on stage — yes!). If these topics sound familiar, that’s because, for the most part, they’ve already been widely covered in previous debates.

Wallace’s selected topics come with the caveat that there could be possible changes due to news developments, says the Commission on Presidential Debates.

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