Preliminary ratings for the Democratic National Convention show Kamala Harris’s keynote speech had 22% more viewers than Donald Trump’s address last month.
MSNBC alone averaged 6.8 million viewers during the vice president’s speech.
Meanwhile, Trump’s 90-minute, rambling keynote address, had 12.3 million viewers, according to combined ratings of seven networks.
Trump’s keynote speech, meanwhile, beat Harris in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Greensboro, Mulvihill said.
The final night of the DNC saw 14.3 million viewers, according to the combined ratings from seven networks shared by Mulvihill.
The Chicago event once again beat the Republican National Convention, which had 12.2 million viewers on its final night.
“In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man.
But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious,” she said.
According to preliminary ratings, there were 22% more people watching Kamala Harris’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention than there were for Donald Trump’s speech the previous month.
During her speech in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday night, Harris made history as the first woman of color to accept a major party’s presidential nomination.
According to the combined ratings of seven major networks shared by Michael Mulvihill, president of insights and analytics for the Fox Corporation, approximately 15 million people watched Harris’s 45-minute speech. During the vice president’s speech, MSNBC alone had an average audience of 6 points and 8 million.
In the meantime, 12:03 million people watched Trump’s long, ninety-minute keynote speech, according to the aggregate ratings of seven networks.
Additionally, Harris was rated higher in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Detroit—all significant swing states. Mulvihill claimed that in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Greensboro, Trump’s keynote address outperformed Harris’s.
Mulvihill shared the combined ratings from seven networks for the DNC, which showed that 14 points and 3 million viewers watched the final night. With 12.2 million viewers on the last night of the Republican National Convention, the Chicago event triumphed once more.
Mulvihill posted on X, saying, “The DNC has had significant leads in the overnights and the margins have narrowed in the final nationals.”. “The difference of 17 percent for the entire show last night is so small that it’s not impossible to assume that the RNC had a larger national audience. “.
According to two people close to the campaign, Trump was worried that Harris’s speech would be rated higher than his on Thursday, Rolling Stone was informed. The sources stated that Trump mentioned the subject several times while praising his own “tremendous” viewership.
“Voters know Kamala is weak, failed, and dangerously liberal, and the Democrat ticket is the most radical in American history,” the Trump campaign responded to the report in a statement to Rolling Stone. “.
In her historic keynote address, Harris cautioned the audience about the perils of a second Trump presidency and promised to “write the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told.”.
“Donald Trump is a very irresponsible individual. However, there are very grave repercussions if Donald Trump is reinstated in the White House, the speaker stated.
Without any restraints, she went on, “imagine Donald Trump using his enormous powers as president to serve his one and only client—himself—rather than to better our country’s security or yours.
