3d presidential debate transcript: live updates from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s face-off

Final round: The third and last presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is here.

The two candidates face off Wednesday, October 19, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for 90 minutes — no commercial breaks — in a debate moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. According to Wallace, the debate will cover debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and "fitness to be president."

The stakes are high for both candidates. After months of running on controversial positions on immigration, race relations, and foreign policy, Trump enters the third debate embroiled in multiple sexual assault allegations and trailing Clinton in the polls after two poor debate performances.

And Wallace isn’t one for easy questions. Having co-moderated the three Fox News Republican primary debates (two of which Trump attended), Wallace has already experienced the Republican nominee on a debate stage. He once even told Trump that his budget proposals "don’t add up" — fact-checking him in real time.

But as my colleague Andrew Prokop explained, this doesn’t mean it will be a cakewalk for Clinton either:

Fox viewers would very much like to see Clinton pressed on whether her email scandal, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, leaked information from John Podesta’s emails, her health, her "basket of deplorables" comment, and so on make her unfit to be president.

Vox will run a rush transcript of the debate below the live stream video. (Editor’s note: The transcript may have missing words or phrases due to cross-talk.)

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