UPDATED with final stats: According to final Nielsen ratings, CNN’s Democratic debate averaged 15.8 million total viewers last night. That would make it the sixth-biggest nonsports cable telecast in history. In the 25-54 demographic, the faceoff among White House hopefuls averaged 5 million — the most ever for a Dem debate. CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield bragged on-air this morning that her network’s debate drew “a higher number than the season premiere of The Walking Dead.” The debate’s opening and closing moments, when the candidates deliver their prepared blah, blah were coded separately from the actual debate, and each block of time clocked 12.7M viewers. The previous top-rated Democratic presidential primary debate on cable news was CNN’s Los Angeles debate on January 31, 2008, which averaged 8.3 million viewers. On broadcast, the highest rated was ABC’s Philadelphia faceoff on April 16, 2008, averaging 10.7 million viewers. We’ll never know how many of these 15.8M viewers CNN owes to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump having announced yesterday morning he had decided t0 live tweet the Dem debate, giving his fans reason to hate-watch. Around the time word of CNN’s record ratings was getting out today, Trump tweeted: Related Story Democratic Debate Live Blog: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders… Read full this story
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