He could have delivered a knockout blow simply by demonstrating a simple command of the issues and controlling his bullying tendencies and ruffled temper. Trump could have won the election last night. “Tax question weakened him, birther question destroyed him,” tweeted Luntz. According to RealClearPolitics, a focus group of Pennsylvania voters convened by GOP pollster Frank Luntz decided Clinton “dominated” the debate.
On MSNBC, Hallie Jackson on MSNBC said that a Republican operative called the birther moment “devastating.”Īnd sometimes they spoke on the record. Even a few Republicans, off the record, conceded this. Debates take on a narrative, just like everything else in the campaign, and no one could channel-surf through the post-mortems, as I did, without hearing the narrative loud and clear: Trump was terrible. Major Garrett at CBS, sounding like a Trump surrogate, twice said Trump spoke with “simplicity and confidence.”īut that wasn’t the media consensus, and consensus is what really matters. The New York Post reported that Trump won over a barroom of Pennsylvania undecideds. Conservative radio talking head Hugh Hewitt said Trump won the first 39 minutes, Hillary the rest, and then Trump won “overtime,” whatever that means. Trump supporters and much of the conservative media that once reviled him as insufficiently right-wing declared him victorious. Naturally, winning, especially in politics, is a highly subjective thing. She held only a 10-point lead over Trump among those who predicted a winner. Clinton was set up to lose.Įven pre-debate polling showed that expectations for Clinton were surprisingly low, especially given her experience. Going into the debate this week, the media had set up Trump for a victory. (Clinton pounced on this idea in the debate.) On NBC Nightly News, we got more of the Trump pre-debate spin that he hadn’t even bothered to prepare, with the suggestion that preparation is what politicians do, not agents of change.
John Yang on the PBS NewsHour predicted that Clinton “would be the grind,” while Trump was “sort of gliding in.” On CNN, Democratic adviser Paul Begala was already working the refs, saying “I worry that we’re going to do theater criticism,” which he clearly thought would be to Clinton’s disadvantage. They focused not on Bush’s obvious shallowness, but on Gore’s sighs and his alpha moves physically edging into Bush’s territory. Bush and Al Gore in 2000, after which instant polling showed Gore the winner… until the media weighed in. Just about everyone cites the example of the first debate between George W. (Photo by Pool/Getty Images)Īs I remarked in my pre-debate post, one of the fascinating things about presidential debates is that the post-mortems are typically more significant than the event itself. Nielsen will issue its formal tally later today.Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens during the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on Sept. President Obama’s first debate against Mitt Romney, for comparison’s sake, averaged 67M viewers in 2012. That initial 81M for the Trump/Clinton clambake also does not include online viewing, which this year more than ever will drive up significantly the viewing level.Īll of these adds will catapult the Clinton-Trump kerfuffle over the previous record holder: Ronald Reagan’s one 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, which logged 81M. but then Nielsen never has included those stats in its tally tracks of TV’s 60 years of televised presidential debates. Viewing also does not including people who watched outside their homes, in bars, etc. That total does not include PBS or C-Span, whose tallies are typically not included in numbers issued to commercial networks, one of which, CNN, looked at the data and first reported the total take across the dozen nets.
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PREVIOUS, 12:30 PM: Donald Trump has broken another TV ratings record in his bid for the White House.Īcross 12 TV networks that carried live Trump’s first skirmish on the same stage with Hillary Clinton, 81 million viewers tuned in, setting a new record for televised presidential debates. NBC Snares Biggest 1st Debate Crowd Since 1992 To Top Field
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