As the left continues it’s meltown over Trump’s total domination of Kaitlan Collins and the bitter hacks at CNN, the ratings have finally come in. As expected, having a Trump town hall was a great idea for the little watched network. More than 3.1 million tuned into watch. A typical night for CNN at that hour is about 500,000-600,000 if they are lucky.
CNN’s highly criticized town hall with Donald Trump was watched by an audience of 3.1 million viewers, making it the second most watched single-candidate town halls since 2016.
As audiences tuned in to watch the former president take questions from moderator Kaitlan Collins, as well as GOP-leaning undecided New Hampshire voters, the program drew in 703,000 viewers in the key cable demographic among adults 25-54, according to early Nielsen figures.
Wednesday’s event was a close runner-up behind the network’s 2020 town hall with Joe Biden, which maintained its spot as the most watched single-candidate town hall with 3.47 million total viewers tuning in.
Viewership for the 2023 live event also exceeded the last time the former president appeared on CNN for a town hall by almost a million viewers, as the April 12, 2016 town hall averaged 2.2 million total viewers, which indicated a 125% increase in viewership as compared to time period norms at the time.