Trump touts online viewership for GOP convention after trailing in TV ratings

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Source: The Hill

President Trump on Saturday touted online viewership for the Republican National Convention after his speech drew a smaller TV audience than Joe Biden's address, with the GOP saying total viewership across TV and online for their event surpassed that of the Democratic convention.

Trump touted the figures a day after preliminary figures showed that his convention speech drew a smaller audience on TV compared to Biden's speech at the Democratic convention last week.

On traditional outlets CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, an estimated 19.9 million Americans watched Trump's speech on TV, while 21.7 million watched Biden's speech.

According to figures released by Nielsen, Democrats also edged Republicans in total TV ratings between their respective conventions.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514254-trump-touts-online-viewership-for-gop-convention-blew-away-the-dnc

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And the 'lizard people' on other planets prefer Trump?

[DBoon]

1. How many online "viewers" were bots?

clickfraud is real

[jmowreader]

2. Trump fails to realize...

...a lot of the people watching online were Democrats watching for the same reason they watch shows about plane crashes and train wrecks.

[johnnyfins]

3. And this is exactly how you can tell that all of the "Biden Beats Trump in Ratings" stories

got under Trumpo's skin. When he comes back with something lame like online viewers. What a bitch.

[joanbarnes]

4. ...and Pyutin, don't forget Pyutin

[Make7]

5. This was the largest audience ever to witness an convention, period...

... both in person and around the globe. These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the convention are shameful and wrong.

(Where is Sean Spicer when you need him?)

[Javaman]

6. I would probably the online views were much much lower.

Consuming that the only people still supporting him are old white racist. Do they really think they will be watching online?

[Stallion]

7. What is the Source of Trump's Alleged On-line Numbers?

[Totally Tunsie]

8. Wouldn't there have been a lot of Democratic online viewers for DNC also?

Therefore, Dem numbers would also be higher than the TV ratings.

His concept is ridiculous (as usual).

[sakabatou]

9. Showing that Trump cares only for himself