Fox News' tumultuous interrogation with Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris Wednesday evening received blockbuster ratings.
The highly anticipated primetime interrogation betwixt big Bret Baier and Harris racked up implicit 7.1 cardinal unrecorded viewers, according to the outlet.
That assemblage size means it was the astir wide watched cablegram quality interrogation of the 2024 election season, grabbing much eyes than immoderate sit-down Donald Trump has done this year.
Trump's Wednesday municipality hallway successful Georgia, besides with Fox News, lone garnered 2.9 cardinal viewers, though the ex-president's lawsuit was astatine 11am and not the overmuch much coveted 6pm slot arsenic Harris' sit-down occupied.
Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris sat for a one-on-one interrogation with Fox News anchor Bret Baier Wednesday. The sit-down drew 7.1 cardinal viewers, making it the astir watched interrogation of the 2024 predetermination cycle
The FNC interrogation with Harris besides acold exceeded the viewership of CBS News' 60 Minutes interrogation from lone weeks ago.
That interview, which featured some Harris and her moving mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, averaged 5.7 cardinal viewers.
Baier's treatment besides drew much viewers than the archetypal associated interrogation with Harris and Walz held by CNN successful August, which had 6.3 cardinal tune in.
The beryllium down with Harris and the much blimpish web bordered connected hostile astatine times arsenic Baier sparred with the VP astir her argumentation decisions.
Near the opening of the interrogation the Fox big sought to instrumentality her to task for President Joe Biden and her handling of migration and borderline security.
She repeatedly asked him to halt interrupting her erstwhile helium would probe her answers.
At times Baier and Harris spoke implicit each different arsenic they tried to get their points in
There were besides tense exchanges astir Harris' stance connected taxpayer-funded enactment surgeries for inmates and amerciable immigrants.
The erstwhile president applauded Baier and the web aft the interrogation aired.
'Great occupation by Bret Baier successful his Interview with Lyin’ Kamala Harris,' Trump posted online.
'She has a monolithic and irredeemable lawsuit of Trump derangement syndrome - truthful bad, successful fact, that she is hardly capable to speech astir immoderate taxable different than the antheral who had the champion system ever, the strongest borderline successful history, and who conscionable got the unanimous endorsement of the US Border Patrol, me!'
'She is besides the worst vice president successful history, but hopefully volition soon beryllium gone.'
He past again gave congrats to Baier 'on a pugnacious but precise just interview, 1 that intelligibly showed however wholly incompetent Kamala is.'