RNC ratings on first night down 21% compared to 2016

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/17/rnc-night-one-ratings-down-trump-first-appearance

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  1. Honest question: Who watches the conventions anyway?

  2. That’s actually pretty bad considering he was nearly killed a couple days before. Even I was tempted In watching even though I’ve never watched before

  3. The 2016 convention had drama.

    Trump’s takeover of the party is so complete that at this point, it’s like sitting in on a MLM presentation.

  4. “The first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC) drew 18.13 million viewers Monday night, up slightly from 2020, but down 21% from 2016, according to Nielsen.”

    Up slightly from 2020 is more important imo. 2016 can be explained by non-republican watching due to the novelty of Trump or maybe streaming online instead of cable, etc…

  5. In fairness. 20% republicans probably died since 2016

  6. this would be an unremarkable number, a decline we would expect from this low enthusiasm election between two broadly unlikable presidents.

    but, given that this immediately followed an assassination attempt… it’s safe to say enthusiasm is greatly lower than it appeared even a week ago.

  7. Given how much trump loves to brag about his Apprentice ratings, this is the sort of thing that could get under his skin.

  8. Who wants to watch that bullshit. I won’t watch the DNC either.

  9. They are like: tonight we are going to start with lots of lies and scare tactic. We know our base is gullible enough to keep falling for it. But seriously thankful at least a few republicans are like: I will never vote for Trump again.

  11. If I want to watch bat-shit crazy people making really stupid decisions, I can just watch “Love After Lockup,” or some other trash tv.

  12. This entire election is a stale rerun. Voters overwhelmingly say they would be interested in watching a completely different show.

  13. I think for 2016 some people genuinely believed the populist BS that he was spouting and thought he was going to make their lives better so they were interested. Now aside from his MAGA fanatics I think people realise it’s all a con and they don’t really care as much.

  14. turns out lots of people prefer presidents that don t get shot

  15. 8 years ago is a big difference in terms of access to media. I don’t watch main news anymore. I watch clips and breakdowns on YouTube

  16. I keep saying it, people are tired of Trump’s act and the new voters he brought out aren’t as motivated as they were four years ago. If we all get out and vote Trump will lose bigley.

  17. 2024 has been so fucking wild. I want off Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

    I figured after the events of last week, Trump would get a boost. Instead it’s just gotten worse, and his VP pick is insane even for MAGA cultists.

    And Biden might be signaling he is stepping down, potentially.

    The ups and downs would be laughed off if this was a TV show—people would complain it was “unrealistic”. The Onion was eaten and then spit out.

    Reality has been broken since 2016, but now we are just reaching an extreme parody of a banned Simpson’s episode knockoff.

    Idk how to feel anymore lol. Idk if this is good or bad or whatever—I’m so nervous for November.

  18. Asking the question we all want to know: does it track with covid mortality rates?

  19. Guess we Americans feel like, if we want to watch days of a Cult hocking hate and violence, we can just YouTube a Charles Manson, Jim Jones etc. documentary.

  20. It’s because nobody else is important the only person that matters is Trump. In 16 you could at least argue Cruz or Rubio or someone was interesting to she how they react. Now the only highlight is dear leader

  21. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.axios.com/2024/07/17/rnc-night-one-ratings-down-trump-first-appearance) reduced by 51%. (I’m a bot)
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    > Roughly 17 million people watched the first night of the Republican National Convention on television during the primary speech hours between 10 p.m.-11 p.m. EST Monday night, according to Nielsen ratings.

    > Why it matters: That's down more than 26% from the number of TV viewers for the first night of the 2016 RNC. It's also 13% lower than the number of TV viewers who watched the first night of the Democratic National Convention last week.

    > The big picture: TV ratings for the RNC were down about 21% on average this year across all four nights compared to 2016.

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  22. Well, to be honest, if you looked at the crowd that attended … that was one funky looking group of people .. Trump probably was like these are my people? lol

  23. Wonder if that correlates to him losing about 20% of the vote in state primaries to Nikki Haley. 🧐

  24. I’m telling you folks, remember this, the abortion thing has killed them.

    You’ll see in November. This isn’t the 1930s.

    It’s much bigger than you think.

  25. Everyone’s seen this nonsense in a megachurch and everyone’s tired of it.

  26. The RNC to me is like sitting around a campfire and telling scary stories, where the world is the campfire and scary stories are misinformed lies to monger fear driven support.

  27. Great news ! Can’t remember another metric that showed much less excitement.

  28. It’s just a bunch of people prostrating and humiliating themselves for their Fuhrer Trump.

  30. Even the assassination attempt didn’t boost their numbers. That suggests independents aren’t interested.

  31. Most people don’t like Trump. There’s just many people that don’t like Biden, either. Voting apathy. 

  32. He is a felon most morally strong and lawful people have nothing to tune in for. There is zero solutions by them

  34. Should have got intellectual titan and mega celebrity Kid Rock to speak lol.

  35. Probably something to do with the fact that republicans are blatantly trying to take away your rights… Vote BLUE!

  37. I much preferred looking down upon the RNC convention from high in the polls and feeling good.

    It’s not so fun, now, from down here.

  38. What a weird, narrative pushing headline choice:

    > The first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC) drew 18.13 million viewers Monday night, **up slightly from 2020**

    If y’all want us to vote Blue, you need to stay honest with the headlines. 2016 isn’t as relevant as the *previous* race featuring the same two terrible old choices and everyone knows that.

  39. For better or worse, I’m pretty sure it’s bc the majority of people are decided (one way or the other) and don’t care about watching the BS.

  40. Everyone is just so done with politics and both candidates. The bad thing for Biden though is that if Trump’s people come out then he will win just because of low voter turnout.

  41. I can’t believe people actually watch these conventions

  42. Ya, it’s not funny anymore. We just want them to go the fuck away

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