SEATTLE - On June 27, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election, and the majority of adults across the United States will be watching.
Hosted by CNN in its Atlanta studios, the debate is slated to start at 9 p.m. ET with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderating the event. Most adults in the U.S. plan to watch some sort of element of the first presidential debate ahead of the 2024 elections, and many believe that the event will be hugely important for the campaigns of both Biden and Trump.
This is according to a poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, that found out that about 6 in 10 U.S. adults say they are "extremely" or "very" likely to watch the debate either live, in clips, or read about or listen to commentary about how both candidates do in their first faceoff since the 2020 presidential campaign.
The poll suggests that millions of Americans are likely to keep up with the debate in some sort of format. Both candidates remain highly unpopular amongst voters according to data collected from a sample of 1,088 adults conducted between June 20-24 of this year.
The results shown by the poll in which how people are expected to watch the debate are interesting. About 4 in 10 say they are likely to watch or listen to some or all of the debate live, while the same 4 in 10 people said they will consume commentary in the news or on social media.
Despite the interest, none of the candidates arrive to June 27th's debate in the best shape when it comes to favorability ratings. About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say they have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of President Biden, while a similar negative number surrounds Trump.
When it comes to Latinos, the poll also casted a few interesting responses in terms of the presidential candidates. Thirty-five percent of Hispanic adults think Biden has done more to help Hispanic people, while 28% say Trump did more.
The poll also found out that nearly half of Hispanic adults (46%) are dissatisfied with Biden as the nominee and a similar share are dissatisfied with Trump (49%).
Despite Biden's recent executive action on immigration, suspending the asylum process for three weeks, the Democratic candidate is focused on luring more Latino votes to his cause. Another AP-NORC poll conducted in February showed that, compared to Black adults (58%), Hispanic adults were less likely to approve of Biden (36%).
Hispanics and/or Latinos will play a key role in this year's elections. Latinos have grown at the second-fastest rate of any major racial and ethic group in the U.S. electorate since the last presidential election and an estimated 36.2 million are eligible to vote this year.
Four years ago, President Biden took a 59% majority of the Hispanic vote, although Trump gained about 10% of Hispanic votes in 2020 (38%) compared to when he was elected president in 2016 (28%).
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