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New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off for the first time on the debate stage Monday night, the biggest moment of the already extraordinary 2016 presidential race.
With national polls showing a tight race just six weeks out from Election Day, the Hofstra University fight offers one of the last chances for each to speak directly to the tens millions of voters who are expected to tune in.
For Clinton, a veteran debater, one of her biggest challenges will be both to provoke Trump and avoid being provoked by him, while delivering an earnest and candid performance.
And for Trump, who had uneven and at times explosive debate performances during the Republican primary, his first one-on-one debate presents a serious test of his ability to stay on script and keep his cool.
Here are five things to watch at Monday night’s debate:
Which Donald Trump will show up?
During the long Republican primary, there was no telling which Trump would show up to a debate.
Sometimes it was the combative and hostile Trump — quick to throw punches and go after his opponents with personal attacks. Other times, it was an uncharacteristically subdued Trump, content to disappear from the spotlight for long stretches of time and let his competitors command the stage and attack one another.
“We are preparing for different Trumps that might show up,” Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri told reporters last week. “He may be aggressive or he may lay back and that’s hard to game out.”
“You should be held to the same standard on knowledge, what kind of plans you have, your ability to explain your plans,” she said. “Our concern is just what kind of standard is he held to.”
Trump, meanwhile, has suggested that Holt is a Democrat. “Lester is a Democrat. I mean, they are all Democrats. OK? It’s a very unfair system,” Trump said. (Holt is actually a registered Republican.)
What Holt wants to avoid at all costs is the fate that recently befell his NBC colleague Matt Lauer. The “Today” show host moderated the network’s “Commander-in-Chief Forum” earlier this moth, and the reviews were disastrous.
Lauer was accused of multiple transgressions, including aggressively interrupting Clinton, spending too much time grilling her on the email controversy, asking Trump relatively soft-ball questions and failing to call him out when he falsely stated that he had opposed the Iraq War.
With regards to fact-checking, “Lester is not going to be a potted plant,” one NBC staffer close to Holt said.
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