Ratings For Presidential Debate Last Night

It was reported earlier today that last night s debate ratings were abysmal compared to 2016 but those were just preliminary numbers.

Ratings for presidential debate last night. I cover breaking news. Cnn money more than 65 million people watched the first debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden tuesday night. There was a hell of a lot of brimstone and fire from donald trump last night in the first 2020 presidential debate with joe biden and america both feeling scorched this morning. Updated sep 30 2020 06 27am edt.

The first 2016 trump vs clinton debate drew 84 million viewers compared to this year s 27 3 million viewers. Et nielsen has released final live plus same day data for last night s vice presidential debate and it s reporting that a total of 57 9 million viewers watched across 18. The television audience for the debate was. For the night the presidential debate scored a 7 1 rating among adults 18 49.

The first presidential debate of 2020 was widely panned by most observers and drew a smaller tv audience than the record setting first debate four years ago. Why last night s debate is already considered the worst in presidential history. Tuesday night s so called debate between donald trump and joe biden was seen by a whopping 73 1 million viewers tuesday according to nielsen. That s down from the record 84 million for the first debate in 2016.

Isabel togoh forbes staff. Fox news reporter chris wallace moderated last night s debate against trump and biden. The first presidential debate between president donald trump and democratic nominee joe biden averaged 68 1 million viewers across eight broadcast and cable networks with fox news leading the way. That s a huge number more than triple the.

The ratings were actually much higher than initially reported. 73 1 million people watched the debate on tv last night.