An estimated 67.1 million individuals watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a 31% enhance from the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden that ultimately led to the president dropping out of the 2024 race.
The talk was run by ABC Information however proven on 17 totally different networks, the Nielsen firm stated. The Trump-Biden debate in June was seen by 51.3 million individuals.
Tuesday’s depend was in need of the file viewership for a presidential debate, when 84 million individuals noticed Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s first face-off in 2016. The primary debate between Biden and Trump in 2020 reached 73.1 million individuals.
There was a marked enhance in youthful and middle-aged viewers, with 53% extra adults aged 18-49 tuning in to see Harris debate Trump than watched Biden do the identical, in accordance with Nielsen information.
Of the viewers who watched on cable networks, the best variety of viewers have been on Fox Information, with 9.1 million individuals tuning in on the channel recognized for its optimistic protection of Trump.
Harris was extensively seen to have gained the talk. A CNN flash ballot of debate watchers confirmed 63% to 37% that Harris had carried out higher. Previous to the talk, these voters have been cut up 50-50 on who would win. Of the Harris-supporting viewers polled by CNN, 96% stated she had completed a greater job, whereas 69% of Trump supporting viewers stated so.
Trump’s marketing campaign publicly claimed victory, however a few of his aides privately conceded it was unlikely that he persuaded any undecided voters to interrupt for him, individuals accustomed to the matter advised the Guardian.
The viewership places the talk roughly between the Seinfeld (76.3 million) and Associates (52.5 million) sequence finales.
Minutes after it ended, Taylor swift endorsed the Harris-Walz ticket to her 283 million Instagram followers in a put up that included a hyperlink to the federal government voter registration web site Vote.gov. The location noticed virtually 338,000 new guests within the hours that adopted, a Basic Providers Administration spokesperson advised MSNBC.
Swift’s endorsement is more likely to be most influential amongst Individuals beneath 35, since about 30% of that group say they’re extra more likely to vote for somebody Swift helps, in accordance with polling carried out for Newsweek. The polling discovered that 18% of voters say they’re “extra doubtless” or “considerably extra doubtless” to vote for a Swift-backed candidate, whereas 17% say they’re much less doubtless.
No different debates are presently scheduled between the 2 presidential candidates, though the Harris marketing campaign have requested for one, and the Fox Information Channel has publicly supplied alternate options. CBS will host a vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance on 1 October.
Tuesday’s debate stakes have been excessive to start with, not solely due to the approaching election itself however as a result of the final presidential debate set off a sequence of occasions that resulted in Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
Whereas CNN selected to not right any misstatements by the candidates throughout Trump’s debate with Biden in June, ABC as a substitute challenged statements that Trump made about abortion, immigration, the 2020 election and violent crime.
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