All the word this week has been about Donald Trump sticking it to FoxNews and skipping this debate which might have been him acting like an impulsive wacko (likely), a petulant child (typically) or a calculated move to run out the clock with the lead (ballsy). We did get a kick out of Bill O'Reilly basically begging him to reconsider during Trump's visit into the no-spin zone and was even more entertained that Roger Ailes reached out to both Melanie Trump and Ivanka to beg him to come.
anyway, Trump's got his competing event on CNN today.. which will certainly draw some viewers away but I wonder how much the overall impact will be..and how Trump will spin it..
as a reference point..
1st debate on FoxNews got 25 million people
2nd debate on CNN got 23 million people
3rd debate on CBNC got 11 to 14 million people
4th debate on FoxBusiness got 11 to 14 million people
5th debate on CNN got 18 million people
6th debate on FoxBusiness got 11 million people
http://thehill.com/p...d-without-trump
The ones on the channels that not everybody gets (CBNC and FoxBusiness) get around 11 million.. but the CNN and FoxNews ones get between 18 and 25 million.. Since this is a FoxNews production, I have to think Trump's people will compare it directly with the 25 million they got for that first debate which isn't totally fair since there was a novelty to that one. The truth is that the average American isn't going to turn off The Big Bang Theory to watch any debate, so 25 million isn't realistic period..
but with that said I have to think that anything less than 25 million viewers will be showcased by Trump as a gigantic win for him. We should probably compare it to the CNN one from December, so anything less than 18 million should be seen as a Trump dump (as opposed to a Trump bump for the rest of it)
I am predicting about 12 million.. and 2 million for Trump's CNN dog and pony show
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