Viewership for the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won’t match the record-setting levels of their first meeting.
The Nielsen company said Sunday’s debate audience was down 20 percent from the first contest on the top broadcast and cable networks. Nielsen’s final viewership estimate that includes all of the networks that aired the event should be available later on Monday.
The first debate reached a total of 84 million viewers, higher than for any other presidential debate on record.
Sunday’s audience will exceed 60 million viewers when the final estimate is in.
CBS News reported that more than 17 million debate-related tweets were sent out on Sunday night. Trump generated more than double the debate conversation on the social media network—with Trump getting 64 percent to Clinton’s 36 percent. ISIS remained the top topic of conversation, rather than the Trump tapes that surfaced last Friday.
Clinton’s Twitter account gained 25,000 new followers, and Trump gained 16,000 new followers—although Trump has far more followers than his Democratic counterpart.
Epoch Times contributed to this report.
