Lester Holt wanted to avoid being Matt Lauered.
Ironically enough, that set the wrath of liberals upon him for giving away the store in blatant partisanship.
Poor Holt! He did what the Left wanted him to do and the Left thought he made Trump seem instead a very human and sympathetic figure.
Exactly the opposite of the mission the Left demanded Holt fulfill and he screwed the pooch.
The poor liberal ref - what was he supposed to do? And Trump is still standing in the wreckage of Holt’s failed attempt to take him out.
Holt got smoked to smithereens by his own blatant bias.
The moderator's job is to make sure the election appears close enough that people will actually tune in to his network for the next six weeks. If Lester Holt exhibited any bias in favor of Clinton, it's because his network bosses told him she's losing this race.