Monday night’s coverage drew 18.1 million viewers across 12 broadcasters and cable networks
  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    In 2016 there was an actual race to be won, a question to be answered, a reason to watch.

    Ever since then, the party has been all in on trump. No serious challenge has been made, and it turns out that doesn’t make for very good TV.

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yes, there was a lot of talk of a delegate revolt to prevent Trump from getting the nomination. Ted Cruz took to the convention floor to tell delegates to “vote their conscious”. Everybody wondered whether Trump, this joke of a candidate who actually won, would have the sense to pivot away from hard right rhetoric during his speech to appeal to the swing voters he would need to win over, given the seemingly insurmountable obstacle the Clinton Machine posed.

      This year there is no drama, we all know who Trump is, to the point where we can all just imagine what his speech will be and it will accurate. What’s the point of watching?

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Seems to be going around.

    I know I used to watch them just to see what to prepare for. Now I don’t even want the Clif Notes.

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Nah trump is really only responsible for about a couple hundred thousand of those deaths. Not anywhere near 5 million.

      But he is most certainly responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Being stupid on TV just doesn’t pull the same audience anymore. Also, use relative measurements for these headlines! “5 million” is useless without context. That’s over 20%!

    • Pronell@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      But that audience is the cult.

      If they aren’t tuning in to watch the cult leader, that’s potentially good news down the line for turnout.

      Maybe just hopium, but if their enthusiasm drops, we win.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    4 months ago

    It is also Allstar week in Major League Baseball, and night 1 of the RNC coincided with the Home Run Derby.

    Of people who still watch broadcast or cable TV as their source of nightly entertainment, I’m going to guess most people were watching dudes hit homeruns instead of watching a glorified political ad.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Despite Donald Trump’s dramatic appearance days after an assassination attempt, the opening night of the Republican National Convention drew in five million fewer viewers than the first night of the convention back in 2016 – when he became the party’s presidential candidate for the first time.

    Fox News had the highest ratings for its RNC coverage, with 6.9 million viewers as of 10pm on Monday.

    On MSNBC on Tuesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell waded in on the numbers, saying “this is a very low-rated convention.”

    Trump unveiled JD Vance as his vice presidential pick in a Truth Social post on Monday, before making his first public appearance since surviving the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania at the weekend.

    On Tuesday, he returned to the RNC to watch two old rivals, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, take to the stage to endorse him in the election.

    Now, Vance is set to take to the stage on Wednesday for his first major address since he was tapped to be Trump’s new running mate.

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