Fox News’ tumultuous interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday night received blockbuster ratings.
The highly anticipated primetime interview between host Bret Baier and Harris racked up more than 7.1 million live viewers. depending on the medium.
That audience size means it was the most-watched cable news interview of the 2024 election season, drawing more eyeballs than any Donald Trump rally this year.
Trump’s Wednesday town hall in Georgia, also with Fox News, only garnered 2.9 million viewers, though the former president’s event was at 11 a.m. and not the much more coveted 6 p.m., as Harris’ rally was. .
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris attended a one-on-one interview with Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday. The meeting attracted 7.1 million viewers, making it the most-watched interview of the 2024 election cycle.
FNC’s interview with Harris also far surpassed the viewership of CBS News’ 60 Minutes interview from just a few weeks ago.
That interview, which featured both Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, averaged 5.7 million viewers.
Baier’s discussion also drew more viewers than CNN’s first joint interview with Harris and Walz in August, which had 6.3 million viewers.
The meeting with Harris and the more conservative network bordered on hostility at times when Baier argued with the vice president about her political decisions.
Near the beginning of the interview, the Fox host attempted to criticize her for President Joe Biden and his handling of immigration and border security.
She repeatedly asked him to stop interrupting her when he probed her answers.
At times, Baier and Harris would talk over each other as they tried to make their points.
There were also tense exchanges over Harris’ stance on taxpayer-funded sex surgeries for inmates and illegal immigrants.
The former president applauded Baier and the network after the interview aired.
“Great job by Bret Baier on his interview with the liar Kamala Harris,” Trump posted online.
“He has a huge, hopeless case of Trump derangement syndrome; in fact, it’s so bad that he can barely talk about anything other than the man who had the best economy of all time, the strongest frontier in the history and has just received the unanimous endorsement of the United States Border Patrol, yo!’
“She’s also the worst vice president in history, but let’s hope she leaves soon.”
He then again congratulated Baier “for a tough but very fair interview, which clearly showed how totally incompetent Kamala is.”