{"id":2011908,"date":"2023-08-25T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-republican-presidential-debate-draws-13-million-viewers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:41:16","slug":"first-republican-presidential-debate-draws-13-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-republican-presidential-debate-draws-13-million-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"13 million viewers tune in for the first Republican Presidential Debate."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-republican-presidential-debate-draws-13-million-viewers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The First Republican Presidential Debate Draws 13 Million \u2063Viewers<\/h2>\n<p>The first Republican presidential debate, hosted by\u2064 Fox News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attracted an impressive 13 million viewers. \u200bThis number is particularly noteworthy considering President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision\u200c to boycott \u2062the event.<\/p>\n<p>The debate featured a lineup of eight presidential hopefuls, including notable figures such as Florida Gov. Ron \u200dDeSantis, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim \u2064Scott (R-S.C.), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, North Dakota Gov.\u2062 Doug \u2063Burgum, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from Nielsen Media \u2064Research, the\u200b debate outperformed more than 70\u2064 percent of debates\u2062 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-d-vances-railway-reform-bill-picks-up-steam\/\" title=\"J.D. Vance's railway bill gains momentum.\">recent presidential cycles<\/a>, making it a significant success.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/trump-tucker-interview-reaches-nearly-200-million-views-5480019\">Trump\u2013Tucker Interview Reaches\u2062 Nearly \u200c200 Million Views<\/a> &#8211; 8\/24\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mike-pence-got-very-bad-advice-about-electoral-college-certification-trump-says-5479763\">Mike Pence\u200c &#8216;Got Very Bad Advice&#8217; About Electoral College Certification, Trump Says<\/a> &#8211; 8\/24\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Out of the 13 million\u200d viewers, approximately 2.8 million fell within the coveted 25 to 54 age range. \u200bFox News reported\u200d that the debate became the highest-rated non-sports cable telecast of the year in terms of total viewers, surpassing the previous record set by Paramount&#8217;s &#8220;Yellowstone,&#8221; which attracted 11.1 million viewers, including 2.4 million in the 25 to 54 age group.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2063addition, the debate&#8217;s viewership surpassed the \u200bcombined viewership of ABC, CBS, and NBC broadcasts \u200cduring the same \u2064time slot.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent from the event was President Trump, the clear frontrunner among Republican candidates. Despite qualifying for the debate, he chose to boycott\u200c it, a decision reminiscent of \u2063his strategy during the final\u2064 GOP \u2062debate in Iowa back\u2062 in 2016. Ultimately, Trump&#8217;s nomination bid was successful, although\u200b he narrowly lost the Iowa caucuses to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).<\/p>\n<p>While the debate \u200dwas taking \u200dplace, former cable news superstar Tucker Carlson, who recently parted ways with Fox News, conducted an interview with President Trump. The interview covered controversial topics such as Jeffrey Epstein, the \u200cpossibility of civil war, and the risk of assassination.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Former president Donald Trump speaks with Tucker Carlson in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-highlights-crime-in-san-francisco-los-angeles-in-tucker-carlson-interview\/\" title=\"Trump focuses on crime in San Francisco and Los Angeles during Tucker Carlson interview.\">pre-recorded interview aired<\/a> on debate night on Aug. 23, 2023. (Tucker\u200b Carlson\/X)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As \u2064of now, the interview has been seen by over \u200c241 million people, according to data from X. However, it&#8217;s \u2063important to note that on\u2063 X, a video \u2063must occupy at least half of the screen and play for a\u2064 few seconds to be counted as a view. Therefore, it&#8217;s challenging to compare\u200b the\u2064 interview&#8217;s views with those of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>In President Trump&#8217;s absence, several \u2064contenders stood out during the debate, particularly Vivek Ramaswamy, an underdog and staunch \u200bdefender of Trump. Despite facing attacks on his age and\u200b lack of political experience from Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, and Mike\u2064 Pence, Ramaswamy has seen \u200ba rise in polling numbers in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google Trends, Ramaswamy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-republican-presidential-debate-draws-13-million-viewers\/\" title=\"13 million viewers tune in for the first Republican Presidential Debate.\">generated significant internet interest<\/a> \u2062following the debate, second only to President Trump. Additionally, Haley has outperformed Ron \u2064DeSantis in terms\u2062 of online\u2063 attention since the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite President Donald Trump&#8217;s boycott, the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attracted 13 million viewers. Fox News hosted the event, which showcased eight contenders, including Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott (R-S.C.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2011909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}