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SPEECH RATINGS
Panicking Trump Is Sure to Freak Out Over Harris’s Speech Ratings
SPEECH RATINGS
Panicking Trump Is Sure to Freak Out Over Harris’s Speech Ratings
Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention
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Original article: https://newrepublic.com/post/185253/donald-trump-kamala-harris-speech-ratings
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
The analysis here makes me smile. The writers are working on reporting polls result, but it would appear that their base analysis skills are pretty limited. I assume that they are looking for a 'Republican' take!. After I read the material I immediately started to think about 'pretzels' and all the curves required to make the thing. Trying to make a case for Republicans at this point is more difficult than making a straight line out of a pretzel!
Peter Burgess
Donald Trump has always prioritized television ratings. The ones from Kamala Harris’s speech will sting.
August 23, 2024/2:49 p.m. ET
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The election is still almost three months off, but Vice President Kamala Harris bested Donald Trump in at least one race that’s sure to eat away at the former reality TV star: the ratings game.
Harris’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention captured the attention of 15 million people Thursday night, approximately 20 percent more than the 12.3 million who tuned into the last night of the Republican National Convention to hear Trump accept his party’s nomination.
Several top swing state markets also favored Harris. More viewers tuned in to the vice president’s speech in Detroit, Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Philadelphia, the last of which saw a 50 percentage point increase over people who watched the last night of the RNC, according to the president of insights and analytics for Fox Entertainment, Mike Mulvihill.
“WEST PALM BEACH was the top market for Vice President Harris’s acceptance speech with a 20.2 rating,” Mulvihill wrote in a separate post. “West Palm was also the top market for Donald Trump’s acceptance speech last month (19.9).”
It is possible, though, that the entirety of the Republican National Convention got more viewers than its liberal alternative.
“All week the DNC has had big leads in the overnights and the margins have narrowed in the final nationals,” Mulvihill said. “The 17% gap for last night’s full show is close enough that you can’t rule out the possibility of the RNC having the bigger national audience.”