By Ted Johnson CNN and Univision’s Democratic presidential debate, unusual in that it was held in-studio without and audience because of the coronavirus crisis, drew a combined 10.87 million viewers on Sunday, according to the fast national figures from Nielsen.
That is a dropoff from the 15.3 million viewers for the last debate, held on Feb. 25 in Charleston, SC, when there were still seven candidates participating.
But CNN said that the audience was the largest for any of the events it has sponsored this cycle. The coronavirus crisis dominated the early part of the debate, as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders outlined how they would address the pandemic.
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