“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 23.8 million viewers watched coverage of Trump’s RNC address across thirteen cable and broadcast networks, down from 24.6 million viewers who watched Biden’s DNC address on twelve of those same networks” writes Brian Stelter.
“The gap between Biden and Trump was wider earlier in the day, when fewer networks were counted in the total. Nielsen released its final audience estimate late on Friday afternoon, bringing Trump within a million viewers. Still, 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.”