More ratings in, now from a total of 9 cable & broadcast networks: Biden 23.6, Trump 21.6

[highplainsdem]

Brian Stelter tweet and article:

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/media/ratings-trump-vs-biden-convention-speeches/index.html

President Trump's Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden's speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.

About 21.6 million viewers watched coverage of Trump's RNC address across nine cable and broadcast networks, down from 23.6 million viewers who watched Biden's DNC address on the same nine networks.

The totals may fluctuate slightly when final numbers are released later in the day, but Biden clearly edged out Trump.

The Democratic convention was also higher-rated than the Republican convention overall when the audience for all four days is tallied up.

Biden's campaign celebrated the overnight ratings win -- and embraced it as a potential way to get under Trump's skin.

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Tweet from Biden press secretary TJ Ducklo:

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[awesomerwb1]

1. Too bad

so many Dems watched dump's speech.

[jorgevlorgan]

6. I think a lot of us might be a little masocistic

I personally would rather be trapped in a box of scorpions than suffer through one of his speeches.


But to be fair, I would never want to actually be trapped with scorpions. But if I had to make a choice... Maybe.

[Skittles]

12. exactly

and so many of them seemed to think they just HAD to watch it

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. That 17.5 vs 14.1 is almost 25% higher - YOWSER.

[bbernardini]

3. Rage tweets incoming. nt

[Iliyah]

4. shithole has blown a . . .

3...2...1...

unless they are hiding this from him.

[dragonlady]

5. We watched the Democratic convention on our computer

I wonder how the statistics for that would compare.

[LakeArenal]

7. I also wonder about me watching in ten to fifteen seconds before I turned ...

My stomach and has to turn it off

[stillcool]

8. will it be deep state, or fake news?

[cwydro]

9. Judging from all the posts here during this week, plenty of folks here helped his ratings.

Bewildering.

[George II]

10. I read on Twitter earlier today that even Pence had a higher rating than trump....

Can't verify if it's true, but that would be great.

[tanyev]

11. Oh, lordy, is it going to be like Inauguration Day?

[LakeArenal]

13. 3 million seems unlucky for Dump.

[treestar]

14. and a lot of Trump's numbers

represent Democrats watching for the entertainment value.

[Blasphemer]

15. This says alot given that Trump has a cult following while Biden does not. nt

[mdbl]

16. Trump got 21.6???

thats a lot of people vomiting at the same time.