and for a moment like that to be senator sanders big funneled fund-raising moment after this debate is remarkable. but that is the moment that his campaign is fund-raising on since the debate ended last night and all through today. of course, the clinton campaign has been reveling in it. right, they re finally get something support on what they have been saying about this issue for weeks and months now even as the media refuses to move on. if you re looking for a contrast between the two parties, here s the democrats getting their biggest cheers, their biggest reaction, their biggest take away moment that s good for both candidates involved and it s on the occasion of two candidates standing together. in contrast, the republicans have just had two debates and which they showed off to the country was candidates literally calling people stupid and making fun of each other s looks. so yeah. democrats are psyched about last night s debate. it did not got way people expected it to on a mil
policy, there is no comparison. thank you. the economy does better when you have a democrat in the white house and that s why we need to have a democrat in the white house in january 2017. there is such a difference between everything you re hearing here on this stage and what we hear from the republicans who have it s always the republicans or their sympathizers who say you can t have paid leave. you can t provide health care. they don t mind having big government to interfere with a woman s right to choose and to try to take down planned parenthood. they re fine with big government when it comes to that. i m sick of it! you know, we can do these things. we should not be paralyzed. we should not be paralyzed by the republicans and their constant refrain big government this and that except for what they want to impose on the american people. i know we can afford it because we re going to make the wealthy
he would never describe them as anadversary. it turns out, they re an unreasonable adversary. they have have been throughout his presidency. to the point of disowning their own policies when president obama got too close to adopting them. i mean they are really, really not interested in being friends or colleagues with him as a democratic president. they want to do nothing with him. and if he wants to do something by definition, that means they don t want to do it. they see him as an enemy. they treat him as an enemy. and it turns out the person most likely to be nominated by the democratic party to succeed president obama president obama, she thinks of them as the enemy, too. governor chafee, franklin roosevelt said i ask you to judge me by the enemies i made. which enemy are you most proud snf. i guess the coal lobby. i want to work with the coal lobby.
of televised democratic debates. and in part, there were a lot of them because they got huge audiences every time they were on tv. they got 2.8 million people watching in august. 2 about the 2 million people watching in in september, 2.5 million people watching in november. these were just huge audiences for the democratic primary debates. but the biggest audience that year by far was for the final democratic debate which happened really late. happened at the very end of the contest in april in philadelphia. it was on abc. and this was, again this was very late in the process. this was after super tuesday and everything. and nobody, still, that late in the process had, any idea if barack obama was going to win or hillary clinton was ultimately going to win the nomination. so this was the last big head-to-head brawl in that incredible race. unsurprisingly, that last democratic debate in 2008, it broke all records. 10.7 million people ended up watching that last democratic debate.
nearly 11 million people. well last night crushed that. last night over 15 million people watched the debate. and i can t give you anything official. i can tell you anecdoally as a person who works in the tv business and talks to other people in the tv business, i can tell you that the estimates within our industry about what kind of an audience was going to turn out for that debate last night was nowhere near 15 million people. it wasn t half 15 million people. but, surprise. turns out that people care. and people want to watch this stuff. and, no, there are not 17 different democrats running like there are republicans this year. and there s no crazy donald trump character running on the democratic side. and so the republican audience for their two debates so far, their audiences were bigger than what happened last night. but what happened last night went way beyond the wildest expectations for interest in the democrats.