The vice presidential debate between Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz drew 43.1 million viewers Tuesday evening, considerably fewer than the face-off between the vp candidates in 2020, in line with Nielsen. (NYT)
A mean of 9.1 million individuals tuned into CBS, which hosted the controversy, adopted by 7.7 million who watched on Fox Information and 6.1 million who watched on ABC, in line with the early Nielsen information launched by Fox. (Forbes)
The 2024 debate’s scores had been down 25% from 2020’s vp debate between then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence, which had practically 58 million viewers. (Axios)
Essentially the most-watched debate amongst presidential operating mates was the 2008 conflict between Democratic President Joe Biden, on the time a long-serving senator representing Delaware, and then-Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which had 69.9 million viewers. (Newsweek)
CBS moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan had an essential option to make forward of Tuesday’s vp debate: Would they immediately fact-check the candidates’ statements dwell within the second? Or would they take a hands-off method and let the candidates fact-check one another? O’Donnell and Brennan selected to string the needle. (CNN)
