{"id":2119601,"date":"2023-12-08T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-ratings-continue-to-drop-as-4th-gop-faceoff-posts-lowest-viewership-of-2024-primary\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:53:02","slug":"republican-debate-ratings-continue-to-drop-as-4th-gop-faceoff-posts-lowest-viewership-of-2024-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-ratings-continue-to-drop-as-4th-gop-faceoff-posts-lowest-viewership-of-2024-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Debate Ratings Continue To Drop As 4th GOP Faceoff Posts Lowest Viewership Of 2024 Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Frepublican-debate-ratings-continue-to-drop-as-4th-gop-faceoff-posts-lowest-viewership-of-2024-primary%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=2119601&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--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ratings for the fourth Republican presidential debate held on Wednesday dropped to the lowest numbers so far this primary season with a 47% decrease in viewership from the previous debate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the party\u2019s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, skipping each of the GOP debates, viewership has consistently fallen since the first Republican faceoff held on August 23 on Fox News, which attracted 12.8 million viewers. The second debate, held a month later on Fox Business, drew 9.5 million viewers, and the third debate on NBC was watched by 7.5 million people. The downward trend continued Wednesday night as 4.1 million people tuned into the most recent Republican debate on NewsNation, Axios <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/12\/07\/41m-people-watch-fourth-republican-presidential-debate\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the debate marked the lowest ratings for this Republican primary cycle, it set a record for NewsNation, an outlet that debuted in 2021. NewsNation attracted 1.6 million people to its coverage of the debate, the largest audience in the network\u2019s young history, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexstar.tv\/newsnation-and-the-cw-network-deliver-more-than-4-million-viewers-for-gop-presidential-primary-debate\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Nexstar Media Group, which owns NewsNation. Another 2.5 million people watched the debate on the CW\u2019s simulcast, another subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNewsNation was incredibly honored to host last night\u2019s debate, and we are very pleased that so many viewers tuned-in and watched,\u201d said Sean Compton, the president of Networks for Nexstar Media. \u201cThis debate represents a remarkable achievement for a cable news network that is just barely three years old. We\u2019re very proud of the NewsNation team, the great job done by the moderators, and the overall production. In the end, the real winners last night were the nation\u2019s voters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NewsNation debate featured a narrowing field of Republican candidates, with only four candidates qualifying for the stage. Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Washington Free Beacon Editor-in-Chief Eliana Johnson, and NewsNation anchor Elizabeth Vargas moderated the debate, which showcased Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday\u2019s debate ratings came up just shy of the debate last week between DeSantis and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) that was moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity, which garnered nearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/12\/desantis-newsom-debate-ratings-fox-news-1235648926\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">five million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> viewers. The NewsNation debate did, however, beat out Hannity\u2019s town hall with Trump that aired on Tuesday and attracted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fox-news-channels-hannity-trump-town-hall-scores-3-2-million-viewers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3.2 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> viewers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hours after the fourth GOP debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, had finished, CNN <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/07\/politics\/cnn-gop-presidential-primary-debates-2024\/index.html?Date=20231207&#038;Profile=CNN&#038;utm_content=1701967085&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that it will host two more debates in January, one in Iowa on January 10 \u2014 five days before the Iowa caucuses, and another in New Hampshire on January 21, just two days before the New Hampshire primary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ratings for the fourth Republican presidential debate held on Wednesday dropped to the lowest numbers so far this primary season with a 47% decrease in viewership from the previous debate.\u00a0 With the party\u2019s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, skipping each of the GOP debates, viewership has consistently fallen since the first Republican faceoff held on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2119602,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2119601","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}