Debate Ratings 2020 Vs 2016

There was a hell of a lot of brimstone and fire from donald trump last night in the first 2020 presidential debate.

Debate ratings 2020 vs 2016. The nielsen ratings saw an audience of only 28 82 million across the big four networks down from more than 45 million for the first debate in 2016. His victory came from the voters who didn t like either candidate. Television viewership of the debate on tuesday was down about 13 percent from the first presidential debate in the 2016 race nielsen reported. The face off between vice president mike pence and democratic nominee sen.

President donald trump was able to win in 2016 because he was seen as the lesser of two evils. And a 2 6 rating. Back in 2016 it was nbc in first place with 15 6 million. Kamala harris drew 57.

After the record 84 million viewers for the first trump clinton encounter the second. Wednesday s vice presidential debate drew a much larger tv audience than its counterpart in 2016. If the 2020 debates follow 2016 s pattern viewership will drop off in the next two scheduled head to heads. By matthew gilbert globe staff updated september 30 2020 5 03 p m.

A large part of that came from the. Trump biden brought in 64 7 million viewers the trump clinton match 84 4 million.