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| − | The first presidential debate for the 2016 election cycle broke ratings records with an audience of 24 million viewers. Held on Thursday, August 6th, the debate was conducted by [[Fox News Channel]] for the top ten in the polling. The debate transcript is available online.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-the-2015-gop-debate-9-pm/</ref> | + | The first presidential debate for the 2016 election cycle broke ratings records with an audience of 24 million viewers, making it the highest-rated primary debate in history.<ref>http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/07/media/gop-debate-fox-news-ratings/</ref> Held on Thursday, August 6th, the debate was conducted by [[Fox News Channel]] for the top ten in the polling. The debate transcript is available online.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-the-2015-gop-debate-9-pm/</ref> |
==Roster based on polling== | ==Roster based on polling== | ||
Revision as of 22:36, August 7, 2015
See winners and losers in the first debate at Talk:2016 presidential debates.
See also 2016 presidential election.
The first presidential debate for the 2016 election cycle broke ratings records with an audience of 24 million viewers, making it the highest-rated primary debate in history.[1] Held on Thursday, August 6th, the debate was conducted by Fox News Channel for the top ten in the polling. The debate transcript is available online.[2]
Roster based on polling
The final roster of the top ten debaters, chosen on August 4th, was the same as polling indicated on August 2nd based on an average of the last five major national polls. The polls used by the Fox News Channel were Bloomberg, CBS News, Fox News, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University.
These top ten candidates are the following, with the following average poll numbers as reported by NBC and WSJ (not Fox):[3]
- Trump - 19.8 %
- Walker - 13.2 %
- Bush - 13 %
- Paul - 6.4 %
- Carson - 6.4 %
- Rubio - 6.2 %
- Huckabee - 5.8 %
- Cruz - 5.8 %
- Christie - 3.2 %
- Kasich - 3.2 %
Based on polling the second tier of candidates -- who would be excluded from the prime-time debate, but allowed to participate in an earlier debate at 5pm ET -- are:
- Perry - 2.6 %
- Santorum - 1.4 %
- Jindal - 1.4 %
- Fiorina - 0.6 %
- Pataki - 0.6 %
- Graham- 0.4 %
- Gilmore - 0 %