Posted on 03/03/2022 6:24:59 PM PST by algore
President Joe Biden had the lowest viewership for his State of the Union than any of his four predecessors first addresses with less than 40 million tuning in, according to Nielsen ratings.
In a tracking of the 16 networks that aired live coverage of the address on Tuesday evening, 38,197,000 individuals were watching from 27,408,000 different households in the U.S.
The figures from Biden's speech come amid an ongoing war in Ukraine and increasingly dire approval rating numbers for the president and Democratic lawmakers going into the 2022 midterm elections.
Donald Trump's first State of the Union address in 2018 had 45.5 million viewers from 32.1 million households
The first State of the Union after the attacks on January 29, 2002 garnered 51,773,000 viewers from 35.5 million households and his remarks the year after saw 62,061,000 people tune in for the speech, the second most ever since Clinton's first address to a joint session of Congress.
Joint Session addresses are delivered just months after a president is elected so the new Executive Branch leader can lay out to the legislative body their plans for the country. It is not considered the first 'State of the Union,' that comes around a year after inauguration.
The marks for Biden's speech Tuesday evening were a noticeable improvement from his joint session address last year, where only 26.9 million viewers tuned in from 19.95 million households, which was the lowest of any address since tracking started in the early 90s.
Biden's Tuesday figures just edged out Trump's last State of the Union in February 2020, which drew just over 37.1 million people.
The first 12 minutes of the president's address on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 was aimed at Russia following its invasion of Ukraine
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That’s why I had it on.😁
Watching Biden is like watching a potato. Not very interesting.
Even on Crowder, I lasted about 10 seconds.
It wasn’t very good that’s for sure. And not just Biden, Crowder and company weren’t entertaining either. Nothing to work with.
The demented old fool can’t even get Americans to watch him during a war?
Where are the “81 million” at?
Anyone else noticed that Biden didn’t say, “White Supremacists are the biggest threat the the United State.” in the speech?
They’re short on manpower to fight their wars.
The clapping seals on both side didn’t seem to think so
It figures. Speaking of viewers/attendees, has anybody here ever seen photographs or video of Biden’s Inauguration that includes any part of the throngs of millions who supposedly voted for him? And I mean pictures that aren’t of the media and National Guard he had there to protect him. To this day I’ve seen nothing.
I found some pictures from the BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-55730480
A little over halfway down in the article there’s a picture looking out away from his viewpoint into what should be a massive crowd. I was SHOCKED. There were probably more people present when George Washington was inaugurated. There couldn’t have been even 10,000 people there....
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