CNN Says 47.9 Million Watched Presidential Debate; TV Viewership Drops Considerably From 2020

Nigel Farage has ended a bad-tempered weekend on the campaign trail attacking a pair of national broadcasters and saying his party will “campaign vigorously to abolish the licence fee.”

“Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” the New York Times said today in the understatement of the moment as it a called for the incumbent to bow out of this year’s race against Donald Trump before it’s too late.

Former President Donald Trump, in his first rally since the presidential debate on Thursday, continued to go after Joe Biden as a bit of a master political manipulator even as much of the post-event focus has been on the president’s feeble performance.

What in the hell did we just watch?!

Must protect our peace!

During an interview with CNN‘s Anderson Cooper, Vice President Kamala Harris ackowledged that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during tonight’s debate but insisted that it was a “strong finish.”

William Earl Jon Stewart got behind “The Daily Show” desk Thursday evening for a special, live-broadcast edition, going on air minutes after the first 2024 debate between President Biden and former president Donald Trump concluded on CNN. The host didn’t mince words, attacking both candidates’ performances and criticizing their inability to put together a coherent argument during the event.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but Donald Trump didn’t just give a better performance than Joe Biden during the first 2024 presidential debate. In terms of authority and confidence, quickness and poise, articulation and verve, Trump left Biden in the dust. Relative to his previous debate performances, Trump even came off as (God help us) presidential.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The media tried to keep the current President and the former one on a short leash Thursday evening, but failed in many ways to keep them in check. In a unorthodox presidential debate that focused more on optics than substance, a visibly shaky President Joe Biden clashed with a manipulative Donald Trump, who kept his temper but used the time allotted him by CNN to largely avoid moderators’ questions and instead spew a host of inaccuracies. leaving his opponent ill-matched to combat him on screen.

Celebrities are calling out CNN debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, saying that they didn’t actually do their job as moderators.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Should things go the way they seem to be going, the events of Thursday night may go down as the greatest unforced error in presidential electoral politics since Richard Nixon, fatigued and unshaven, went on-camera against John F. Kennedy in 1960. Joe Biden ran up against two sets of limitations in the June 27 CNN-hosted debate.

If there was any winner in tonight’s first presidential debate, it was CNN. If there was a loser, it was absolutely Joe Biden.

CNN is preparing for the first 2024 Presidential Debate.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have each arrived in Atlanta for this evening’s CNN debate, an event that many predicted would unravel when it was first announced last month.

The White House Correspondents’ Association is urging CNN to allow at least one print pool reporter inside the studio for the duration of tonight’s presidential debate, after the network rejected previous requests.

The 2024 presidential election is happening tonight (Thursday, June 27) across most major networks!

EXCLUSIVE: GB News represents “what Nigel Farage wants the future of the right to be,” according to Channel 4‘s lead general election anchor.

When asked recently what he thought should be the first question at CNN’s Joe Biden–Donald Trump presidential debate on Thursday, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos had a succinct answer: “Who won the last election?”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo was interviewed on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” (via Mediaite) and said she’s got a target on her back in Hollywood because she’s an actor who does not endorse Joe Biden for president. The Emmy-winning actor went on to say there are “a lot” of “quiet” Donald Trump supporters in Hollywood, suggesting they won’t go public with their support out of fear of being similarly criticized for going against Biden. “Is there a quiet Trump voter out there in Hollywood?” host Jesse Watters asked.

CNN has named Jeremy Diamond as international correspondent based in Jerusalem.