The viewership for the first night of the Democratic National Convention was down from its audience for the last in-person convention that the party had in 2016.

On Monday night, Democrats gathered in Chicago for their first in-person convention since 2016, and the evening drew an audience of roughly 20 million, Axios reported. Those numbers are down 22% from the 26 million people that watched the convention in 2016 when former Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was officially nominated by her party to go against Donald Trump. 

The biggest speaker of the night was billed to be President Joe Biden, but his farewell address to the delegates didn’t happen until very late on the East Coast after earlier speeches went longer than the convention officials expected.

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20M watch first night of DNC, down 22% from 2016 https://t.co/xIEwrwhItP

— Axios (@axios) August 21, 2024

Around 19.1 million viewers watched the DNC live between 11:30 pm and 12:30 am EST during Biden’s speech and final convention as a Democratic Party leader.

The event was carried across 13 broadcast and cable networks, including CNN, FOX Business, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Scripps News, Univision, Newsmax, NewsNation, and PBS, the outlet noted.

According to Nielsen data, the vast majority (76%) of voters who watched the DNC live on its first night were over the age of 55, the outlet noted. Those numbers match up with the same age demographic of the audience who tuned in live every night to watch the Republican National Convention, Axios noted. 

The drop in viewership is in line with what’s happened with other live political events. The TV ratings for President Biden and former President Donald Trump’s first presidential debate in June plummeted from where they were four years ago.

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Numbers from Nielsen show that a total of 51.27 million people tuned in to CNN to watch what would end up being the only 2024 presidential debate between Biden and Trump, which was broadcast over 17 networks, including CNN, Telemundo, Univision, BET, as well as Fox News Channel, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and PBS, Variety reported.

In comparison, when the two men faced off in September 2020, 73 million plus tuned in.

Former CNN host Don Lemon shared a video on social media Wednesday showing women he interviewed on the street who revealed who they were going to vote for in the upcoming election.

The left-wing journalist interviewed white and black women on the streets of Chicago and all of the women who he included in the video said that they were voting for Trump.

The first woman that Lemon interviewed said: “I’m going for Trump. I feel like every time they don’t want somebody who is good for us to win, they throw somebody black in our face, thinking that’s gonna, like, make us vote for the black person.”

“I’m going for Trump,” she later added. “Kamala was on Biden’s team, and I don’t like Biden. Gas wasn’t this high when Trump was our president. Food wasn’t this high. I’m going for Trump.”

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The next woman said that she voted for Obama because he was black and that she did not want to vote for Harris “because she’s the first black woman to run for president or to win.”

“I’m supporting Trump,” the woman said. “Because it has to change. It has to change, and now I vote more for what fits me better as a person, rather than voting for the black person or voting for the first woman.”

Another woman said that she was voting for Trump because “we had good times with Donald Trump.”

When asked what she thought about Harris, the woman said: “I don’t like her, the way she speaks, the giddiness, the laughing, everything’s a joke, and it’s not a joke. We’re in trouble.”

A fifth woman told Lemon that she, too, was voting for Trump because she has “always been a fan of his.”

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When asked about Harris, the woman said: “She’s phony and fake. You know what I’m saying? … I’m not feeling her.”

A sixth woman from Virginia told Lemon that she used to be against Trump until she moved to Ohio and “saw the other side” of his policies, presumably because she moved from a blue state to a red state.

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Women on Trump vs. Harris…🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/bi4sItJy15

— Don Lemon (@donlemon) August 20, 2024