Posted on 01/11/2024 11:35:01 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump’s town hall on Fox News Channel (FNC) Wednesday night received nearly double the viewership of CNN’s Republican primary debate featuring former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to data from AdImpact.
“Last night, Donald Trump’s town hall on FNC had nearly double the viewership of the 5th Republican Presidential Primary debate on CNN: an estimated 5.7M to 2.9M,” AdImpact announced, providing a chart of the estimated viewership of past debates and town hall events.
“The town hall was the most watched Presidential primary TV event we’ve tracked since November 8th,” it added.
Indeed, the chart showed the first GOP debate, which took place on August 23, kicking off with a bang with 14.2 million estimated viewers. That only declined as the debates rolled on, descending to 9.9 million and 9.2 million, respectively. Trump participated in none of the debates, often offering counterprogramming — whether an interview with Tucker Carlson or meeting with striking autoworkers in Michigan.
Since that third Republican debate, which took place in early November and attracted 9.1 million viewers, there has not been a televised event that garnered as much viewership as Trump’s Fox News town hall Wednesday evening.
The Fox News town hall saw 5.7 million viewers, compared to 2.9 million who tuned in to CNN’s debate between the GOP frontrunner’s rivals — Haley and DeSantis.
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#Election2024: Last night, Donald Trump's town hall on FNC had nearly double the viewership of the 5th Republican Presidential Primary debate on CNN: an estimated 5.7M to 2.9M.
The town hall was the most watched Presidential primary TV event we've tracked since November 8th. pic.twitter.com/92T14eCLTY
— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) January 11, 2024
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The Iowa caucus is just days away, and Trump continues to lead by an average of 35.3 points in the Hawkeye State.
““The town hall was the most watched Presidential primary TV event we’ve tracked since November 8th,” it added.
Indeed, the chart showed the first GOP debate, which took place on August 23, kicking off with a bang with 14.2 million estimated viewers. That only declined as the debates rolled on, descending to 9.9 million and 9.2 million, respectively.”
So this was the most watched Presidential primary TV event apart from the ones that got more viewers.
the headline SHOULD read “CNN finally realizes who butters their bread”.
Seriously, who wants to watch a debate between Christie and Burgum or whoever they still have now.
Fox News often has twice the viewership as CNN. Fun with numbers.
I watched the entire show and Trump did an outstanding job.
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I must be off today because I read the tile and thought CNN got double the viewership of the debate because Trump was on Fox.
Goofy headline. Who makes these headlines up? Some of them are really screwy.
Republicans are just plain stupid. They go on this network that hates them and subject themselves to the scorn of the CNN viewers. They then promote the bitch-slapping cage match. Democrats candidates would never do that for Fox-they’re scared of the network. We can all say that Fox would be tough and more fair than CNN. Does that buy them anything? About as much as this CNN debate buys our party.
Republicans are just plain stupid. They go on this network that hates them and subject themselves to the scorn of the CNN viewers. They then promote the bitch-slapping cage match. Democrats candidates would never do that for Fox-they’re scared of the network. We can all say that Fox would be tough and more fair than CNN. Does that buy them anything? About as much as this CNN debate buys our party.
I agree. It was like his rallies!
Called it
Called it.
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Yep, you nailed it.👍
Nice call.
If DeSantis trails in third place, Governor Reynolds will not be pleased.
I only saw the first half because of a recording error on my remote. Anyone know where the town hall be found now?
Ping!
Gee, that was a toughy!
😂
Good call.
Link to last night’s town hall thread … over 200 comments …. Links to replay, etc …
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4209303/posts
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