Yes, “X” counts a view as even a person just scrolling past the tweet in their feed without even pressing “play” on the video. And this definitely popped up in a lot of feeds, I would guess.
Still, if even half the 200 million watched any significant portion of the video, it still absolutely would shatter anything the mainstream media ever puts out.
Trump is going to have to say he’s against a national abortion ban and if it’s presented to him he’ll veto it. The rats are going to hit us hard on it and everyone on our side is scared. Women will decide the election and we have no coherent position. on the issue. I’m not counting on us to get it right.
The rough estimate of how many actually watched more than 10 minutes or so is 20% of views. Still a remarkable number.
I suspect the 200 million views will grow for a week into who knows how many.
I watched less than half the debate while reading other things on my computer.
I was probably counted as a debate view