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5 Reasons Why Donald Trump Is Dead Wrong Boasting About Record Debate Ratings

Donald Trump likes to talk a big game about the TV ratings he brings in, but the president was flat-out wrong about the kind of numbers his first presidential debate with Joe Biden brought in on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Trump tweeted: “HIGHEST CABLE TELEVISION RATINGS OF ALL TIME. SECOND HIGHEST OVERALL TELEVISION RATINGS OF ALL TIME. Some day these Fake Media Companies are going to miss me, very badly!!!” As a refresher, Tuesday’s debate raked in 73.1 million total viewers across a 16-channel simulcast from 9 p.m. ET-11 p.m. ET, representing a 16% decline from the first presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in Sept. 2016. Looking specifically at the top seven cable and broadcast networks between 9:03 p.m. ET-10:38 p.m. ET, when the debate was airing, this is how the ratings broke down: Fox News Channel (17.8 million), ABC (12.6 million), NBC (9.6 million), CNN (8.2 million), MSNBC (7.1 million), CBS (6.3 million) and Fox broadcast (5.4 million). Also Read: Biden-Trump Debate Tops 73 Million Total Viewers, Down 13% From 2016 With that in mind, here are five reasons why Trump is dead wrong: 1. These were not the “highest cable television ratings of all time,” but...

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