Call it Trump fatigue or election exhaustion, the 2020 campaign has season has been brutal. Evidence the ratings from last night’s debate debacle. CNN reports:
Nielsen said “an estimated 73.1 million people” watched Tuesday’s debate across 16 channels.
The Nielsen ratings only include Americans who watched on television sets. An unknown number of people live-streamed the debate on their phones, listened on the radio, and watched in other ways, which means the total audience easily surpassed 73 million.
By contrast almost 76 million people watched the first debate on TV in 2016 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
On Tuesday, Fox News drew the biggest audience of any individual network: 17.81 million viewers, well above its performance from any of the 2016 debates. ABC finished second with 12.62 million, followed by NBC, 9.67 million; CNN, 8.29 million; MSNBC, 7.19 million; CBS, 6.38 million; and Fox, 5.44 million.
If you survived the entire 90+ minutes you may have come away feeling like actor Mandy Patinkin, who shared feelings similar to what we’ve heard from many of you today.
