{"id":47137,"date":"2020-10-16T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47137"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:48:53","slug":"trumps-nightmare-biden-takes-the-ratings-crown-in-dueling-town-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47137","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Nightmare: Biden Takes the Ratings Crown in Dueling Town Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday is going to be another Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day<\/em> for Donald Trump, whose days of late are mostly filled with disappointment, bitterness, anger, jealousy, and fear. With every new poll Trump is falling farther behind Joe Biden, both nationally and in the critical battleground states. Even his favorite pollster, the rabidly biased, right-wing Rasmussen, has Trump facing near certain defeat<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

After chickening out<\/a><\/strong> of the second presidential debate, Trump plotted with NBC to schedule a town hall that would directly compete with the one previously scheduled with Joe Biden on ABC. There was a lot wrong with that decision on NBC\u2019s part<\/a><\/strong>, and their poor judgement is not validated by this good news in the aftermath of both town halls (via Variety<\/a><\/strong>):<\/p>\n

“Biden drew 12.7 million total viewers on the Disney-owned network, while Trump drew 10.4 million in the same 9-10 p.m. time slot on NBC. Across the entire runtime, the Biden town hall averaged 12.3 million viewers. In terms of the fast national 18-49 demographic, Biden is comfortably on top with a 2.6 rating to Trump\u2019s 1.7.” [See updated numbers below]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biden\u2019s audience exceeded Trump\u2019s by more than two million –\u00a020%. [Note: these are preliminary ratings that will be updated later in the day].<\/em> That\u2019s a significant victory that parallels Biden\u2019s lead in both polling and fundraising<\/a><\/strong>. Biden pulled in a record $383 million in September, compared to Trump’s haul of only $247.8 million. But best of all, ratings are what Trump cares about more than anything else, and he has utterly failed in that arena. This will surely drive the Narcissist-In-Chief CRAZY(er).<\/p>\n

[UPDATE:<\/strong> The total is now in<\/a><\/strong> for Trump\u2019s town hall, including MSNBC and CNBC. The three networks combined drew 13.1 million viewers. So Biden\u2019s town hall on ABC, whose final numbers are 14.1 million, still beat Trump by a million viewers]<\/em><\/p>\n

There were additional differences between the the Trump and Biden town halls that are more substantive than ratings. While Biden made a couple of mistakes, Trump lied frequently<\/a><\/strong> in his town hall. He was also challenged – and failed – on issues like…<\/p>\n