How Many Times Did Trump Interrupt Clinton In The First Debate? Depends On How You Count
In the first presidential debate, Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton three times.
Or maybe it was 39. Or 35. Or possibly 51.
Turns out, a lot of people were counting, but nobody was counting in exactly the same way. As we gear up for the second presidential debate tonight, I thought it was worth exploring that, especially because we at FiveThirtyEight were a major outlier: We had the lowest interruption count, by far, of any news organization I could find.
MEDIA OUTLET
COUNTED INTERRUPTIONS
FiveThirtyEight 3
AJ+ 28
Time 28
Now This News 34
Vice 35
New York Times 39
Vox 51
How many times did Donald Trump interrupt Hillary Clinton in the first debate?
And reporters aren’t alone in our inability to settle on a standard way to count interruptions. After the Sept. 26 debate, Trump’s interruptions of Clinton became news because of the way they reflected both many women’s personal experiences and social science research that has, in general, shown that women get interrupted more frequently than men. But when I spoke with scientists who have done those studies, they told me that they haven’t been able to settle on a definition of “interruption,” either.
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