President Obama and Mitt Romney have come together to fight for a common cause — limiting the role of debate moderator Candy Crowley in Tuesday’s town hall.

Time reports both campaigns agreed that the moderator would “not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits, and invite candidate comments during the two-minute response period.”

But Crowley herself was not involved in that agreement, and the two campaigns have expressed concern that some of her recent comments suggest she plans to take a larger role in the forum.

“Once the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, hey, wait a second, what about X, Y and Z?” Crowley told CNN last week. “[T]hey launch the discussion and then the moderator furthers the discussions.” 

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Crowley elaborated, saying, “I hope that I can add to this conversation. I hope that I can say, “well, now that you’ve said that, though, doesn’t that bring up this?” (MORE)