The final numbers are in, and as reported earlier, 7.1 million viewers tuned in to the embarrassing spectacle Bret Baier made out of himself when he ruined the last shred of professionalism while he channelled the Trolls of the Comment Sections in an amateurish ambush interview that included a fawning video excusing Trump’s violent rhetoric. Another 1.4 million viewers watched the midnight ET rebroadcast.
That’s more than three times Fox’s late morning tea with Trump in a studio stuffed with MAGA supporters drew–2.8 million viewers at 11 a.m. ET–but it did conveniently provide the reason to shoot the fawning video Baier re-aired later that night when he clumsily confronted Harris.
Per the Daily Beast, the broadcast also drew more than 880,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo, a segment of voters the Harris campaign is trying to reach.