Last night’s Town Hall was not great for Trump in many ways. Biden even appears to have won the ratings race:
Joe Biden’s town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers on Thursday night, easily surpassing the Nielsen ratings for President Trump’s town hall on NBC. That alone was a result virtually no one in the TV business expected. And that’s not even the most surprising part.
The Trump town hall was simulcast by two of NBC’s cable channels, MSNBC and CNBC, but even when those channels are included in the total, Biden — on only one network — still prevailed.
The Trump town hall averaged 10.6 million viewers on the NBC broadcast network. On MSNBC, Trump reached 1.74 million viewers, and on CNBC, about 671,000 viewers. So Trump’s gross audience across the three channels was 13 million, about one million fewer than Biden’s audience on ABC alone.
Last night’s Town Hall meeting in Miami with Donald Trump did clear up some questions in advance of the election.
We know now that he is lying about getting tested before the first debate as required and that it’s just random chance that he didn’t give the virus to Joe Biden. He almost certainly was infectious at the time.
We also know that he does owe over 400 million dollars to unknown entities which he will not name and that he did pay only $750.00 in income tax.
And, he is just fine with Q Anon with which he is obviously familiar despite his protestations to the contrary, along with other completely daft conspiracy theories.
Biden on the other hand showed that he understands what politics is and can speak about policy in detail. You know, like a normal leader.
A couple of highlights — boring policy as a calming balm:
It’s hard to believe Trump could have a chance — but he does.