DNC ratings thump Trump as 29 million TV viewers watch Harris’ acceptance speech

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-23/dnc-ratings-thump-trump-as-29-million-tv-viewers-watch-harriss-acceptance-speech

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  1. His crowd size was bigger… 👀… resulting in lower viewership numbers.

    Yep. That’s why. 🤡

  2. We really should have more concrete streaming numbers at this point. More and more people view these events on their phones/computers.

  4. Oh he’s bigly mad. Wouldn’t want to be his cleaning staff that has to clean the ketchup off the wall! 🤣

  6. 29m was the peak viewers hip, they compared it to trumps 25m, which was his average viewership

    Harris’ average was 26.2, trumps peak was 28m

  8. I’m sure Trump is shitting himself about this but then again, it sounds like he’s pretty much always shitting himself

  9. **DNC:**

    NEW YORK – August 23, 2024 – An estimated **26.2 million viewers** watched the fourth and final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 22, according to Nielsen. The event aired from approximately 9:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET across 15 television networks reported by Nielsen, with varied coverage televised on each.

    The four-day convention closed with a speech by Kamala Harris as she formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. The speech aired from approximately 10:31 p.m. to 11:11 p.m. ET, and **averaged 28.9 million viewers** during that time.

    —

    **RNC:**

    NEW YORK – July 19, 2024 – An estimated **25.38 million viewers** watched the fourth and final night of the 2024 Republican National Convention on Thursday, July 18, according to Nielsen. The event was broadcast live from approximately 10:00 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EDT and carried on 14 television networks reported by Nielsen, with varied coverage televised on each.

    The final night of the 2024 RNC featured former President Trump’s formal acceptance of the GOP presidential nomination. The audience **peaked at 28.4 million viewers** during Trump’s speech in the 10:45 – 11:00 p.m. window.

    Source: [https://www.nielsen.com/](https://www.nielsen.com/)

  10. Just a reminder that while this is neat the vote tally is still 0-0. Please vote up and down the ballot

  12. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-23/dnc-ratings-thump-trump-as-29-million-tv-viewers-watch-harriss-acceptance-speech) reduced by 86%. (I’m a bot)
    *****
    > Nielsen data showed that Harris' well-received acceptance speech was watched by 29 million viewers across 15 networks.

    > Harris also drew substantially more than the 24.6 million viewers who watched Joe Biden's acceptance speech at the convention in 2020 and about the same as the 29.8 million viewers who tuned in to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

    > Harris averaged 50% more viewers than Trump in Philadelphia, 36% more in Detroit, 31% more in Raleigh, N.C., and 21% more in Atlanta, according to Nielsen.

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  15. “thump Trump”

    Give this headline writer a big raise.

  16. And he was obviously one of them considering his rambling meltdown on every media outlet he could find

  17. That’s about 5 million more viewers than Biden got in 2020, not that that means much but it can’t be a bad thing.

    In 2020: Biden had 24.6 million, Trump had 23.8 million
    In 2024: Harris had 29 million, Trump had 25.4 million

  18. Liberals are also way more online watching political streamers

  19. Ratings are his Achilles heal…and hand size…and height…and crowd size. He’s just a “lil tiddy baby” as my mamaw always said.

  20. So normally this would just be an oh interesting. But with trumps fragile ego this is actually a very good thing.

  21. We almost never put on the TV when we are on vacation, but we tuned in for this. It was well worth it, too. I feel like I understand her now, and why she would make a great leader for our country. Her statement about “a harm against one of us is a harm against all of us” and “no one should be made to fight alone” – chills. In a time of so much internal division and hate, the solidarity there moved me so much. 

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  27. I’m going to need Obama to explain how big this ratings number is compared to Trumps.

  29. And it’s more than this when you account for the watch parties and bars.

  30. Oh no, Russian troll farms about to go crazy with the news.

  31. I look forward to the day I’ll never have to hear his stupid fucking name again. No more of these “ump-ump” headlines the media thinks are cute. It’s just gross.

  32. Idk how any critical thinking American could see Harris speech and not vote for her.

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