About 67m individuals see argument, approximately 15m more than Trump-Biden clash An approximated 67.1 million individuals saw the governmental dispute in between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a sharp boost from the June dispute that ultimately caused President Joe Biden leaving of the race. The argument was run by ABC News however revealed on 17 various networks, the Nielsen business stated. The Trump-Biden dispute in June was seen by 51.3 million individuals. Tuesday’s count lacked the record viewership for a governmental argument, when 84 million individuals saw Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s very first face-off in 2016. The very first dispute in between Biden and Trump in 2020 reached 73.1 million individuals. With Harris commonly viewed to have actually surpassed Trump on Tuesday night, the previous president and his advocates are dramatically criticising ABC mediators David Muir and Linsey Davis. The reporters waded into on-the-fly reality checks throughout the argument, fixing 4 declarations by Trump. Nielsen: 67.1 million audiences tuned in for last night’s argument throughout 17 tv networks– Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) September 11, 2024 No other arguments are presently arranged in between the 2 governmental prospects, although there’s been some speak about it and Fox News Channel has actually openly used options. CBS will host a vice governmental dispute in between Tim Walz and JD Vance. Tuesday’s dispute stakes were high to start with, not just due to the fact that of the upcoming election itself however due to the fact that the last governmental dispute uncorked a series of occasions that ended numerous weeks later on with Biden’s withdrawal from the race after his efficiency was commonly panned. Viewpoints on how ABC managed the most recent argument Tuesday were, in a big sense, a Rorschach test on how fans of both sides felt about how it went. MSNBC analyst Chris Hayes sent out a message on X that the ABC mediators were doing an “outstanding” task– just to be responded to by conservative analyst Ben Shapiro, who stated, “this is how you understand they’re total s—.” While CNN selected not to fix any misstatements by the prospects throughout Trump’s dispute with Biden in June, ABC rather challenged declarations that Trump made about abortion, migration, the 2020 election and violent criminal activity. This is Helen Sullivan taking control of the Guardian’s live United States elections protection.