NEW YORK — Even with out lead contender Donald Trump, an estimated 12.8 million individuals watched the primary Republican presidential main debate on two Fox News tv channels and its streaming service.

There appeared little proof that Trump’s try to counterprogram the controversy, by showing in a web-based interview with Tucker Carlson at about the identical time on Wednesday, appreciably affected the quantity of people that have been desirous about testing the eight options.

The viewership was a little bit greater than half the 24 million individuals who watched Trump seem in his first presidential debate in August 2015, the Nielsen firm stated. But it outpaced a January 2016 GOP candidates debate on Fox that Trump additionally skipped and was seen by 12.5 million individuals

Television is a vastly completely different world than it was eight years in the past, with streaming extra established and hundreds of cable clients chopping the wire. The most-watched program seen stay final week on both broadcast or cable TV was a “60 Minutes” rerun on CBS that reached 5.3 million viewers.

While ex-Fox host Carlson boasted Wednesday that his streamed interview would get a “far larger” viewers than the televised debate - and Trump claiming that the interview exceeded the Super Bowl in viewers - there’s no dependable approach of checking that.

X, the social media firm previously referred to as Twitter, stated late Thursday afternoon that the tweet of Carlson’s interview present had 236.7 million views. But that’s a rely of what number of occasions somebody scrolled by Carlson’s interview with Trump of their feeds - even when they didn’t open up the submit to see what was stated.

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If you occurred to scroll by the submit a dozen completely different occasions, that counts as a dozen views.

Public interplay numbers have been smaller: There have been some 55,000 feedback connected to the interview, with about 200,000 individuals saying they appreciated it.

The tv viewership determine is an estimate of how many individuals have been watching the controversy at any given minute. The debate was simulcast on Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.

Moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, the two-hour debate barely talked about Trump till it was midway by way of. Then Baier stated he needed to take a quick second to speak about “the elephant not in the room” - Trump and his 4 felony indictments.

The reluctance to speak in regards to the matter was evident, however the 10 minutes when it was mentioned included a few of the debate’s extra electrical moments.

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