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Nearly 60 million tune in to Trump-Harris debate |
Almost 60 million people watched Tuesday night's debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump, surpassing the June presidential debate by 10 million viewers. |
© Matt Rourke, Associated Press |
However, the total audience figure fell well short of the record 84 million that watched a 2016 clash between Trump and then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
ABC, which hosted Tuesday night’s debate from Philadelphia, hauled in a whopping 18 million viewers, including more than 6 million in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic, according to initial figures from Nielsen.
NBC’s simulcast of the debate came in second, raking in 9.7 million viewers, while Fox News took the top spot among cable news channels, hauling in 8.6 million, more than double CNN’s audience. A number of other networks, including CBS, Fox Business and NewsNation, also simulcast the debate. The Nielsen figures do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who watched the debate online via streaming on YouTube, Roku or other connected TV devices, or those who saw clips of the event’s top moments on social media.
The debate came during a crucial time for ABC, owned by Disney, which like all major media conglomerates is grappling with dwindling advertising revenue for linear television assets and widespread cord-cutting by consumers in favor of streaming platforms.
The Hill's Dominick Mastrangelo has more here. |
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Former President Trump amplified two unfounded conspiracy theories about migrant communities in small cities during Tuesday’s presidential debate against Vice President Harris. After initially segueing to conspiracy theories about Aurora, Colo., and Springfield, Ohio, on a question about the economy, Trump doubled down when defending the size of his political rallies after they were mocked by Harris. “People don’t leave … |
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Matt Drudge thinks Tuesday’s debate between former President Trump and Vice President Harris was the final nail in the coffin of Trump’s campaign ahead of November. Starting late Tuesday, as the debate was still going on and into Wednesday morning, the banner headline on Drudge Report read “The End” with a doctored image showing Trump surrounded by cats, ducks and other small animals. The image was a … |
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Americans lost more than $5.6 billion in 2023 from fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, according to the FBI. The agency, in a report published Monday, said the bureau received more than 69,000 complaints last year from victims of financial fraud involving cryptocurrencies — such as bitcoin, ethereum and tether — equal to roughly $5.6 billion in losses. This marked a 45 percent increase in losses since 2022, the report said. … |
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OpenAI targeting $150 billion valuation |
OpenAI aims to raise at least $5 billion at a valuation of $150 billion, nearly double the $86 billion that the ChatGPT maker was valued at earlier this year, Financial Times reported. |
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AWS to invest $1.8 billion in Brazil |
Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the e-commerce giant, plans to invest 10.1 billion reais, or about $1.8 billion, in Brazil over the next decade, Reuters reported. |
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing to "examine the Department of Energy's role in advanced computing research" on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.
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Swift surge for Harris? Political world weighs impact of star’s endorsement |
Taylor Swift’s surprise postdebate endorsement of Vice President Harris on social media is sending shockwaves throughout the political world, and the reverberations might prove hard for former President Trump to shake off.
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House GOP leadership scrapped plans for a Wednesday vote on the party’s stopgap funding plan, as its chances of passage sank in recent days amid opposition … Read more |
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House Republicans are bemoaning former President Trump’s performance in the first — and potentially only — debate against Vice President … Read more |
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