Trump's Convention Flops As Biden DNC Drew 3 Million More Viewers

[George II]

Another troubling sign for Trump as night one of the Republican convention drew 3.2 million fewer viewers than night one of the DNC.

Via The LA Times:

The first night of the Republican National Convention averaged 15.8 million viewers on Monday, a sharp drop of 28% from 2016.

The audience figure from Nielsen was also below the opening night of last week’s Democratic National Convention which averaged 18.7 million viewers over the three major English language broadcast networks and three leading cable news channels. The audience for the Democrats on the first night of their convention was also down about 28% from 2016.

Trump demanded a blockbuster convention after seeing the wide praise that the Democratic Party earned, but instead, the first night of the Republican convention was an event that alternated between dull and insane.

More damning information at:

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/25/trump-convention-ratings-night-one.html

[In It to Win It]

1. SPREAD IT EVERYWHERE!

[dalton99a]

2. The viewership is RIGGED!!!

[Me.]

3. As In 3 Million More Voters?

[LeftInTX]

14. The DNC had 3 million more

But I can't read much into it.

Obviously the RNC is not a blockbuster, but it isn't quite a flop as watching TransGuide cameras (The Texas Dept of Satety traffic cameras)

[Me.]

17. I Know It Was The DNC

I was drawing a correlation to the 3 million more votes HRC had and which she mentioned last week at the dem convention

[Blue Owl]

4. The answer is always MORE COKE

Do more coke -- that'll get those ratings skyrocketing!!!

[PCIntern]

6. And more cowbell!

[Zambero]

9. Don't Fear The Creeper...

[AZ8theist]

23. Exactly.

[chriscan64]

8. There wasn't too much hyperbole.

There wasn't enough. MORE HYPERBOLE!!

[Cha]

5. Which seems like around the amount he LOST the popular vote

to Hillary and is still Whining about it.

[UTUSN]

7. Ya beat me to it

[connecticut yankee]

10. I like to torture myself

so I tuned in.

But I got so bored after an hour, that I turned it off.

I did stick around for Kimberly's rant, though.

[SoonerPride]

11. This was the largest crowd to ever watch a convention.

Period.















(Im sure McEnany said that today)

[onethatcares]

12. wait til tonight

when the NHL playoffs scores a 87% above the CONvention and 79% of the population doesn't even know ice hocky is played in the summertime.. The light bulbs will be a poppin at that point

I hope the crime family has enough coke to stay up past their bedtimes without peeing their pant(ys)

[LeftInTX]

13. This really isn't a "flop"

He's already president, so voters know what to expect.
3 million less is about what I would expect. I can't read anything into it.
I assume more voters would want to tune into the Democratic convention.

[nolabear]

15. And it's all south from here. You can only stand so much abuse.

Even the minions will get tired of the outrage since they can’t feel that screaming, cheering energy and nobody gives two rips about anybody but their savior. They know that. That’s why they’re teasing that he’ll be there every night.

They’re looooooooooooooosing.

VOTE!

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

16. Interesting breakdown of the various channels:

From the LA Times article:
"Fox News was the most watched channel for coverage between 10 and 11 p.m. Eastern, with an average of 7.1 million viewers, followed by CNN (2 million), ABC (1.97 million), NBC (1.7 million), MSNBC (1.6 million) and CBS (1.5 million)."

So dis-regarding the 7.1 million Fox viewers, the rest of the general public wasn't as interested.

[SergeStorms]

18. Trump will read this as...

a demand for more TV time for himself each night. Yes, everyone just wants more of you Donny, because the nation isn't close to being sick of your face yet.

[Windy City Charlie]

19. I'm surprised

I'm surprised after that, that they haven't accused Nielsen of being "a biased organization paid for by the Democrats." Especially with how they think everything is a conspiracy.

[cheezmaka]

20. Trump was so dismal on the opening night...

bashing Democrats and Joe Biden. It backfired on him BIG TIME! Most likely it did further damage beyond recovery....

[Drunken Irishman]

21. I think the GOP set up their first night to fail...

They had no significant speakers.

The DNC had Michelle Obama on their first night. So, that alone would have been a significantly larger draw than any of the GOP speakers.

Tonight will be more interesting with Melania speaking compared to night two for the Democrats where Jill Biden spoke.

To be honest, I suspect the RNC will draw more for night two than the DNC did ... but who knows? Wednesday should be blah for the RNC as the Pences speak - compared to the Wednesday where Harris & Obama spoke to the convention.

[smirkymonkey]

22. Oooo! That is so going to chap his fat ass!

I can't wait to see the morning rage tweeting!

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Well, the DNC offered more suspense ...

With this being the first convention ever carried out virtually, with all the possible complications that could involve, people wondered if the Dems would screw it up. With the Uglicans ... well, no one wondered.