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Ratings in: Most-watched presidential debate ever

By Jason Russell
Published September 27, 2016 8:09pm ET
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Ratings in: Most-watched presidential debate ever
For the 2016 debate, 80.9 million viewers translates to roughly one in four Americans. In 1980, 80.6 million viewers would have been more than one in three Americans. (AP Photo) | Matt Rourke

Monday’s presidential debate set records as the most-watched presidential debate in American history.

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