Highest Presidential Debate Ratings

Presidential debate viewership falls from 2016 to 73 1 million.

Highest presidential debate ratings. Television households claimed the top household rating of any presidential debate. The viewership estimate makes tuesday s debate the third most watched presidential debate ever. Trump claims presidential debate received highest ratings in the history of cable television despite figures showing 73 million tuned in 13 less than in 2016. With the network s chris wallace moderating the trump friendly network notched 17 8 million viewers a gain of.

He wrote on twitter highest cable television ratings of all time. For the first time ever we ve compiled historical ratings for every presidential and vice presidential debate in the interactive charts below enabling you to spot trends and trend breaking events. The ratings are in. The debate which was moderated by fox news sunday host chris wallace was the highest rated in cable news history and fox news averaged a whopping 5 1 million viewers among the key demographic.

After the 2020 us presidential debate ended on september 29 between president donald trump and his democratic rival joe biden amid some heated arguments potus celebrated the purported high television ratings of the event on september 30. The first presidential debate of 2020 between president donald trump and democratic nominee joe biden brought a smaller tv audience than the record setting first debate four. Nielsen will release ratings for each of the four events as they are available. Commission on presidential debates says it will make changes to format to ensure a more orderly discussion the nielsen ratings only include americans who watched on television sets.

The big ratings winner in this year s debate however was fox news channel. Fox news tops ratings deadline 84 million is the number to beat for tonight s debate to set a ratings record new york times.