Discussion: More People Tuned In To Watch Dem Rebuttal Than Trump's Address

Ah the cruelest cut of all.

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This has to be the first time this has ever happened. Winning!

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Low viewership. No interest. Bad presidency!

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Next let’s see how he does against an Alf rerun.

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Can we call him the 4% president now?

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Heh - I am sure this will annoy Individual-1.

On a separate note, just in terms of optics and politics, I thought both segments were not particularly good. Much as I have respect for both Schumer and Pelosi, the response should have offered MUCH better messaging, delivery, and choreography. At the end of the day, despite the hoopla, I think none of it will have moved the dial.

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ā€œArnold Schwarzenegger isn’t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show.ā€-- Trump, Jan. 2017

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Indeed. Hopefully the few people allowed to yell questions at him will do so, 'cause he’s really gonna hate it.

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The Reality Show President can’t even lead his timeslot with a special one-off blockbuster episode. One-upped by a girl. Shamed, like a dog!

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OH damn…don’t let trump know…he’ll want to amp up the drama next time…dramatic music…celebrity appearances and rose bestowing to the steel contractors.

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That stings him the worst

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" (awkwardly) stand side-by-side to rebut " I swear the Dems media consultants must be the worst in the industry and have been for decades!

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Should have been cancelled long ago. Nothing but shitty reruns now, anyway.

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Guess I was not alone. We started watching it but once it became clear that tRump was essentially making the case for why it’s necessary to keep beating mommy we muted it until Nancy and Chuck came on.

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In all fairness to Trump, that’s only because the GOP base’s Delcolax always kicks in around 9:00 PM EST.

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Rigged! He’ll be jumping around all day spouting about how the ratings were rigged because HE gets the best ratings.

Maybe The Chuck and Nancy Show got higher ratings because people are used to watching TWO people (or more) to tell them the news of the day, weather, and traffic reports. That’s it. Not that no one wants to watch an old, fat, orange guy sniff his way through readily-discernable lies.

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Ah! No wonder he’s threatening to withhold FEMA funds to California. Biggest baby and poorest sport in the world.

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The quarter hour (9-9:15 p.m. ET) containing the president’s speech drew a combined 28.1 household rating in metered markets on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN, Fox News and NBC. The following 15 minutes, including analysis and the Pelosi-Schumer rebuttal, averaged 29.3 across those same networks, a bump of about 4 percent.

That’s about 3,000,000 people, isn’t it? Some things never change.

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I would really like to hear an argument like

The president is demanding 5.7 billions dollars without making it clear what he wants it for, sometime is a wall, sometimes is a fence, sometimes ā€˜border security’. And he is making up for his lack of clarity by holding up the operation of the rest of the government that he heads. Lets re-open the government and have the president submit a detailed proposal to the house and we will consider it.

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