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The debate had a total of 57.9 million viewers on TV and had the second-largest television audience of any U.S. vice presidential debate; it was watched by an estimated 22 million more people than the amount who watched the 2016 vice presidential debate, falling behind the only debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in 2008.
This gave candidates who did not qualify for the September debate more time to qualify for the October debate. [147] Biden, Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, Sanders, Warren, and Yang qualified before August 22, [148] while Steyer and Gabbard qualified on September 8 [149] and September 24 respectively. [150]
Heading into the debate, Biden's team was advising him to avoid messy confrontations and fact checking Trump in real time to avoid getting pulled into the mud with a president who loves getting dirty.
Biden did ramp up as the debate progressed. “Only one of us is a convicted felon, and I’m looking at him,” Biden said to Trump. ... The first debate during the 2020 election cycle was in ...
Those criteria would eliminate Fox News, which did not host a Democratic primary debate in 2020, and NBC News, which did not host a GOP one in 2016 — though its corporate affiliates CNBC and ...
Trump called for Biden to be drug tested before the presidential debate; Biden declined. Trump also claimed that Biden would use a hidden electronic earpiece for the debate, demanding that Biden's ears be searched. Again, Biden declined. [113] [114] The first debate took place at Cleveland Clinic on September 29. It was moderated by Chris Wallace.
During the 22-minute interview, Biden took responsibility for his stumbles in last week’s debate and argued that he underperformed because he was sick. “Nobody’s fault but mine,” he said.
Sanders at a rally in San Jose, California, March 1, 2020 Biden at a campaign event in Bel Air, California, March 5, 2020 Trump participates in a town hall event hosted by Fox News in Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 5, 2020. March 1: Following his fourth-place finish in the South Carolina Democratic primary, Buttigieg drops out of the race. [72]