The 67.1 million figure is significantly higher than the 57.5 million estimated Wednesday by media company Nielsen, which based its preliminary figures on data provided by the network itself. ABCNews.

The debate could be seen on seven different channels, in addition to ABC.

According to updated data from the channel-organizer, which also conducted a study on age groups, 19 million viewers correspond to the 25-54 age group.

First Trump-Biden debate draws lowest audience in two decades

Viewership for the first presidential debate (between Trump and Biden) was the lowest in two decades, according to a preliminary report released cnnwhere the said meeting took place.

At that time, it was viewed by 51.27 million people.

However, both this figure and the one recorded on Tuesday are far from the record number of debate viewers recorded in 2016, when the candidates were Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton; then 84 million people They witnessed a verbal duel.

Trump: ‘migrants eat dogs and cats’; Harris: ‘They will hear lies and insults’

Donald Trump accused immigrants coming to the United States of eating the dogs and cats of citizens living in border towns, to a stunned Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in the November 5 election.

“A lot of cities don’t want to talk about it because they’re embarrassed. In Springfield, the people who came are eating dogs, they’re eating cats, they’re eating the pets of the people who live there, and that’s what’s happening in our country, and it’s a disgrace,” the former president echoed racist rhetoric during his first debate against Kamala Harris.

The host himself ABC NewsDavid Muir quickly stepped in and corrected the former president:

“I just want to make this clear. You mentioned Springfield, Ohio, and ABC News contacted the city manager there. “He told us there have been no credible reports of specific allegations of pets being harmed, injured or mistreated by individual immigrants,” he said. (EFE)