Hannity’s Trump Town Hall Was Top-Rated Show in Cable and Broadcast on Thursday With 5 Million Viewers
Sean Hannity’s Fox News town hall with President Donald Trump was the top show on television Thursday night, beating all cable and broadcast competitors by bringing 5,107,000 million viewers.
Of those who tuned into the 9 p.m. ET interview, according to early Nielsen Media Research ratings, about 968,000 were in the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54.
In the 9 p.m. slot on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow brought in 3,147,000 total viewers, 484,000 were in the demo. CNN’s Chris Cuomo saw 1,812,000 viewers with 490,000 in that key demographic.
During the town hall, which was done in Wisconsin, Trump didn’t answer when asked by the primetime host what his priorities for a second term would be.
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“Well one of the things that will be really great, you know… The word ‘experience’ is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience. I’ve always said that, but the word ‘experience’ is a very important word. It’s a very important meaning. I never did this before. I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times, all of a sudden I’m the President of the United States. You know the story. I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our First Lady and I say, ‘This is great,’ but I didn’t know very many people in Washington. It wasn’t my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now I know everybody and I have great people in the administration,” he said.
Trump went on to trash former national security adviser John Bolton, who released a tell-all book on his time in the administration earlier this week.
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