Fox News reaches 12.8 million viewers for GOP primary debate, despite Donald Trump's absence
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Fox News reached an estimated 12.8 million viewers on two television channels and its streaming network for the first GOP presidential primary debate of the 2024 season, even though former
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The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle drew 12.8 million viewers to Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network combined Wednesday night — more than the last GOP forum held without Do…
Fox News' telecast scored 12.8 million viewers on average, according to Nielsen, making one of the largest TV audiences for a non-sports program so far this year.
The Republicans don’t need Donald Trump to get people to pay attention to their causes. Approximately 12.8 million viewers tuned in Wednesday night to see a telecast of the first Republican p…
Fox News drew more than 12.8 million viewers in its coverage of the first 2024 Republican presidential debate. The figure is the combined audience for Fox News and Fox Business Network, per Nielsen…
The first primary debate of the 2024 election cycle saw former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy trade jabs on Fox News.
Roughly 12.8 million watched the Fox News GOP debate that went on without Donald Trump, far fewer than the 24 million who watched his debate debut in 2015.
FOX News Media’s "Democracy 24: FOX News Republican Primary Debate" drew a staggering 12.8 million total viewers on Wednesday night as Americans flocked to the event.
Fox News reached an estimated 12.8 million viewers on two television channels and its streaming network for the first GOP presidential primary debate of the 2024 season, even though former
Fox News’s first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election exceeded expectations and brought in 12.8 million total viewers, according to data released by Nielsen ratings....
The first Republican primary debate of the 2024 campaign season hosted by Fox News averaged 12.8 million viewers, according to viewership data, a larger than expected audience given the notable absence of frontrunner and disgraced former President Donald Trump.
The good news for Fox News is that 13 million people watched a Republican debate featuring 8 candidates who will never be president, which is bad news for Trump. The bad news for the Republican Party is that the debate audience was about half of 2016.
There seemed little evidence that Trump's attempt to counterprogram the debate, by appearing in an online interview with Tucker Carlson at about the same time, affected the number of viewers.
On Wednesday morning, we predicted that night's GOP primary debate airing on Fox News and FBN would draw somewhere between 8 and 10 million total viewers. Were we right?
