Harris-Trump Debate’s 57.7 Million Viewers Top Trump-Biden Tally

Tuesday’s debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump attracted an audience of 57.7 million US viewers on eight major TV networks — beating the turnout for President Joe Biden’s ill-fated performance in June.

Bloomberg
Published12 Sep 2024, 12:18 AM IST
Harris-Trump Debate’s 57.7 Million Viewers Top Trump-Biden Tally
Harris-Trump Debate’s 57.7 Million Viewers Top Trump-Biden Tally

Tuesday’s debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump attracted an audience of 57.7 million US viewers on eight major TV networks — beating the turnout for President Joe Biden’s ill-fated performance in June.

The contest was viewed as a crucial test for both candidates. Vice President Harris targeted the former president for his felony convictions, his wealth and his role in overturning the federal right to an abortion. Trump complained that fact-checking of his remarks by the moderators from ABC amounted to a rigged debate.

The results ran “contrary to expectations of voter fatigue and anemic viewership,” Ashwin Navin, chief executive officer of data researcher Samba TV, said in an email. 

The debate contrasted with the earlier face-off more than two months ago, when Biden’s mental stumbles raised questions about his fitness to serve a second term. Harris, who took over as nominee, made no comparable blunders.

Trump, trying to make the Biden-Harris immigration policy a key point of his campaign, repeated unfounded, online claims that undocumented migrants in an Ohio suburb were eating people’s pets.

Last night’s program was moderated by ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis. The preliminary ratings were released by Fox, which drew 13.7 million viewers over cable and broadcast.

The host network ABC, part of Walt Disney Co., attracted 18.3 million viewers, leading all others even though the company’s audience may have been limited by a dispute with DirecTV. That service’s subscribers could still watch on other networks.

The June debate between Trump and Biden drew an audience of 51.3 million viewers. The most-watched debate ever was the first between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, drawing an audience of 84 million. 

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