How many Americans watched the first televised presidential debate? Research how many people watched the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in our recent presidential election.

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Luke S.
Mar 1, 2018

So many people that it broke the 60 year record.

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Neilson announced that across 13 TV channels, an estimated 84 million people watched the first presidential debate between Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Businessman Donald Trump. Reports say a few million more streamed it on online channels such as C-SPAN. NBC had the most viewers with 18 million watching their channel. Before then, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan's debate before the election brought in 80.6 million viewers, which the 2016 debate beat overwhelmingly.

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