2016 Vice Presidential Debate Ratings
29 debate with democratic challenger joe biden pulled in 73 million viewers.
2016 vice presidential debate ratings. Kamala harris d ca and vice president mike pence up from the 35 million viewer mark for the. That s up around 36 on the previous vp debate. More than 50 million people watched the first and only 2020 vice presidential debate between sen. Wednesday s vice presidential debate between mike pence and kamala harris.
The data sets used for this comparison look at ratings from 9 p m. The ratings for the 2020 vice presidential debate between vice president mike pence and democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris went up in early numbers compared to four years ago. President donald trump s sept. The three hillary clinton donald trump presidential debates and the tim kaine mike pence vice presidential debate delivered a total of 259 million viewers per data from nielsen media research.
Wednesday s vice presidential debate drew a much larger tv audience than its counterpart in 2016. The vice presidential debate drew more than 50 million viewers wednesday night according to preliminary ratings estimates from nielsen 43 more than the vice presidential debate in 2016 with. The final numbers are in for the only vice presidential debate of 2020 and they are almost record breaking. The wednesday night showdown in salt lake city utah in fast national ratings drew in some 22 57 million viewers across the four major broadcast networks per the hollywood reporter in a piece published.
About 37 2 million people tuned in to the nine television channels that carried the. The 2016 contest scored the smallest television audience for a vice presidential contest since the year 2000 ending up with 37 million total. The face off between vice president mike pence and democratic nominee sen. 2nd update 2 44 pm.
Nielsen is reporting that 59 million people watched the 9 10 30. The 2016 debate between pence.