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Wednesday night time’s Fox News city corridor with former President Donald Trump overwhelmed the rankings of the final Republican debate sooner than the Iowa caucuses, hosted through CNN and that includes former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Republican frontrunner, who has skipped all major debates with his Republican opponents this election cycle, joined Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for a one-hour reside city corridor event.

In the meantime, Haley and DeSantis, who’re neck-and-neck in polling for 2d place in Iowa’s upcoming caucus, faced off for a two-hour debate in Des Moines, Iowa that aired on CNN.

Each events kicked off at the same time, 9 p.m. Japanese time on Wednesday, even though the CNN debate extended for one more hour. In step with early data from Nielsen Media Research, right through the hour they overlapped, the Fox Information city hall with Trump averaged a complete of four.3 million viewers and 553,000 within the 25-fifty four age demographic.

Meanwhile, CNN’s debate throughout the identical hour gathered 2.58 million viewers and 479,000 in the 25-54 demographic. Fox’s experience topped CNN via a double-digit proportion with sixty eight% extra total viewers in the same time slot.

The most recent numbers for Fox convey a rise in viewership from the network’s recorded town hall between Trump and host Sean Hannity final month, which averaged 3.2 million complete viewers, together with 375,000 in the 25-54 age demographic.

As Haley and DeSantis squared off on the controversy stage final night in Des Moines, Trump was once met with cheers of “USA” and supporters yelling “love you” on the city hall. The former president reportedly stayed after the event conclusion to sign autographs, according to the Related Press.

The scores win for Fox News is the final result of a savvy if no longer cold-blooded outmaneuvering of its cable news rival. A source instructed Mediaite that Fox put collectively its three January city hall occasions in not up to three weeks, including the Trump event on Wednesday night time, which proved to be an efficient piece of counter-programming towards CNN’s first Republican main debate.

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