More than 67 million people watched Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate

An estimated 67.1 million individuals watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a pointy improve from the June debate that ultimately led to President Joe Biden dropping out of the race.

The controversy was run by ABC Information however proven on 17 completely different networks, the Nielsen firm stated. The Trump-Biden debate in June was seen by 51.3 million individuals.

Tuesday’s rely was wanting the document viewership for a presidential debate, when 84 million individuals noticed Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s first faceoff in 2016. The primary debate between Biden and Trump in 2020 reached 73.1 million individuals.

With Harris extensively perceived to have outperformed Trump on Tuesday evening, the previous president and his supporters are sharply criticizing ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. The journalists waded into on-the-fly truth checks in the course of the debate, correcting 4 statements by Trump.

No different debates are at the moment scheduled between the 2 presidential candidates, though there’s been some speak about it and Fox Information Channel has publicly provided alternate options. CBS will host a vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance.

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 uncorked a collection of occasions that ended a number of weeks later with Biden’s withdrawal from the race after his efficiency was extensively panned.

Opinions on how ABC dealt with the most recent debate Tuesday have been, in a big sense, a Rorschach take a look at on how supporters of either side felt about the way it went. MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes despatched a message on X that the ABC moderators have been doing an “glorious” job — solely to be answered by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who stated, “that is how you realize they’re full s—-.”

Whereas CNN selected to not appropriate any misstatements by the candidates throughout Trump’s debate with Biden in June, ABC as an alternative challenged statements that Trump made about abortion, immigration, the 2020 election and violent crime.

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David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Comply with him at http://x.com/dbauder.