Donald Trump broke two records with his speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night – not only did he deliver the longest speech ever in the history of party acceptance speech, but it was also watched by the biggest audience to date.
More than 25 million people tuned in to watch Trump’s keynote address, with Fox News raking in the most viewers, Axios reports.
That’s a slight bump from 2020 but a 22% drop from 2016, when Trump closed out the RNC to more than 32 million TV viewers. Fox News raked in the most eyeballs with more than 10 million viewers, about 5 times the number of people that watched on CNN, according to Axios’ data via Nielsen.
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As for Trump’s record-breaking speech, many viewers didn’t stick around through the end.
While viewership on Fox, CNN and MSNBC peaked at the 15 minute mark, The New York Times reports that by the hour mark about 21 percent had changed the channel.
Radio host Dean Obeidallah blamed “corporate media,” for overblowing the RNC’s cable ratings compared to previous years.
“The last real RNC was 2016,” Obeidallah wrote on social media on Friday. “Don’t believe the corp media hype!”