This past week’s pair of Democratic debates brought in two of the three largest audiences of all time. brianstelter notes that the most powerful commodity up for grabs in the current political cycle may just be attention. ReliableSources
About 18.1 million viewers tuned in for the debate across three TV channels — NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo — according to Nielsen data.The previous record for a Democratic debate was set in October 2015, when 15.5 million viewers tuned in to CNN for the first primary season debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Part one of this week's two-part event, designed to accommodate 20 candidates, averaged 15.3 million viewers on Wednesday night.
"The more people that watch our candidates, the more people are gonna like our candidates," DNC chair Tom Perez told the Washington Post.NBC clearly benefited from its decision to carry the debate across three channels, including in Spanish on Telemundo.And the two-night event benefited from enormous early interest in the presidential election.The ratings still fall far short of the Trump-fueled records for Republican primary debates that were set in 2015.
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