Last night’s NBC News Republican Presidential Primary debate averaged 6.86 million viewers total, according to Puck News’s Dylan Byers.
This is almost exactly half the audience the first GOP event drew, on Fox News. That initial show drew 13 million viewers, which was still lower than hope. The number is also down on the second, Fox Business, debate which drew just 9.3 million viewers.
Byers also observed the “Debate did 1.3 million in the 25-54 year-old demo…. lower than the demo audience for Country Music Awards on ABC.”