Monday evening event doubled audience for town hall with Mike Pence and Nikki Haley
1.35 million people and 239,000 viewers in the key cable demographic adults aged 25-54 watched the Anderson Cooper-hosted program with the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, which aired Mondays from 8:00 p.m. to 9:35 p.m. aired. evening, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data.
Although the audience for Christie’s town hall fell short of the 3.3 million viewers who watched Trump, Monday evening’s event doubled the audience that saw the Mike Pence town hall, which drew a total of 632,000 viewers , and doubled the audience. He was joined by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at the event, which attracted a total of 562,000 viewers.
Combined with figures from CNN’s digital platforms, which the network reported produced 362,000 live video starts, total viewers on CNN platforms stood at 1.36 million.
During Town Hall’s time slot, CNN led in demo viewership among cable news channels, as the demo averaged 239,000 viewers, ahead of Fox News’ demo viewership of 235,000 and MSNBC’s demo viewership of 223,000.
Monday’s event with Christie marked the fourth candidate town hall of the 2024 presidential election cycle, following previous installments in May and June with Trump, Haley and Pence.
During the event, Cooper and Christie touched on their stances on gun reform, crime rates, and of course, Trump’s impeachment. Christie said that Trump’s re-election would be “worse than the original show.”
“He is angry and he is vengeful and he said: ‘I will be your retribution.’ Well, I don’t want him to be my vendetta, I don’t need him to do that and I don’t think anybody in America needs it. He wants his vendetta for himself,” Christie said. “I believe that if he does go back to the White House, the next four years will be about him settling scores with everyone who he thinks wasn’t entirely nice to him… [He] Especially since his presidency, he has shown himself to be completely self-centered, completely self-consuming, and to care nothing about the American people.
