Trump-Biden debate not likely to change voters’ minds, expert says
By
Annabella Rosciglione
June 21, 2024 2:31 pm
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The debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is unlikely to change the minds of voters who are currently tapped into politics, one expert says.
History shows debates have little impact on the outcome of a presidential race, but they do provide a platform where a large number of Americans will get to hear from both candidates. According to Nielsen Media Research, 73 million people watched at least some of the first Trump-Biden debate in 2020.
The June debate presents a unique challenge: how to engage people with two unpopular but already well-known candidates so early in the election cycle.
“Debates tend to be the most viewed moments of a single campaign. We don’t know that’ll be the case this time because it’s coming so early,” Thomas Hollihan, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, told the Washington Examiner. “People who are undecided or late decided voters don’t pay a lot of attention to politics until the month before they actually have to go cast a ballot.”
This debate will mark the first presidential debate between a former president and sitting president. Being so, most Americans are quite familiar with both candidates.
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