Trump's border wall pitch draws 40 million viewers
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It didn’t exactly make for riveting political theater, but President Donald Trump’s brief Tuesday night address on border security and the subsequent response from the two leading Democrats still managed to scare up around 40 million viewers.
Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office, the president’s address clocked in at approximately nine-and-a-half minutes, whereupon House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued their joint rebuttal. While complete ratings for the broadcast networks were unavailable at press time, the Dems drew higher numbers than the president on cable news.
According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, approximately a half-million more viewers tuned in for the Pelosi-Schumer segment, as some 16.1 million people watched their response on Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC, up from the 15.6 million who were on hand for Trump’s address.
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