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MAGA Midterm Convention Was A Ratings Dud, Even On Fox

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President Donald Trump’s strange and self-congratulatory midterm convention in Texas was a ratings dud on the network most likely to be watched by his die-hard supporters: Fox News. On Wednesday, Fox’s ratings for the first night of Trump’s event pulled in an average of 2.3 million viewers during primetime. During Trump’s speech, it rose to an average of 2.5 million viewers, but that is smaller than the typical audience for the programs that usually run in those time slots, “Hannity” and “Gutfeld!” The ratings on CNN, which aired some of the speech, also saw its ratings dip more than 100,000 viewers on average from the average in September 2025. MS NOW, which aired very little Trump speech coverage, had 1.1 million viewers, well above last year’s average of 810,000 viewers during primetime. read more

First report: Trump Humiliated by Glitches in Speech to Sparse MAGA Crowd — thedailybeast.com, 5d