Ratings For Cnn Debate Last Night

It averaged 8 3 million viewers for the debate tuesday a decline of 20 percent versus 2016 9 9 million.

Ratings for cnn debate last night. Vice president mike pence echoed some of president donald trump s most common falsehoods and misleading statements during the lone vice presidential debate with sen. Cnn landed in the middle. Cnn more americans said sen. More than 15 million viewers tuned in for part one of the 2020 presidential election s first primary debate on television wednesday night.

The television audience for the debate was. About 6 in 10 59. Cnn s chris cillizza described the 90 minute debate as a deep disservice to democracy and. Kamala harris on wednesday.

It was reported earlier today that last night s debate ratings were abysmal compared to 2016 but those were just preliminary numbers. Cnn money more than 65 million people watched the first debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden tuesday night. This is all because trump refused to do thursday s planned virtual town hall debate due to his covid 19 diagnosis so biden decided to schedule a solo town hall on abc at 8 pm et. The ratings were actually much higher than initially reported.

Why last night s debate is already considered the worst in presidential history. Msnbc beat cnn in total average viewers at that time pulling in an average of 2 927 million but not in the. Still viewership on tuesday night topped all of the debates in 2000 2004 2008 and 2012 and all but one of. Cnn pulled in 2 196 million viewers on average of whom 492 000 were in the demo.

Many critics said afterward that it was the worst debate in modern american history. The individual town halls were scheduled after trump declined to participate in a virtual debate despite concerns over his covid 19 diagnosis.