UPDATE: CNN‘s town hall with Kamala Harris drew 3.33 million viewers, beating its cable news rivals in the 9 p.m. ET slot and topping cable overall.
In the time period, the event edged out Fox News, which drew 3.23 million with Hannity, and MSNBC, which drew 1.33 million with Alex Wagner Tonight.
In the 25-54 demo, the town hall drew 744,000, compared to 423,000 for Fox News and 155,000 for MSNBC.
The CNN town hall also ranked ahead of other port-primary Harris and Trump town halls, and topped any single candidate town hall all year among the 25-54 demo.
The figures are from Nielsen via CNN.
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PREVIOUSLY: CNN’s town hall with Kamala Harris on Wednesday drew at least 3.2 million viewers, giving the network a big bounce from its regular audience in the 9 p.m. time period.
The viewership likely will rise when final numbers come in later this afternoon.
That figure is still well below the 7.8 million who watched Fox News’ Bret Baier’s sit-down with Harris last week on the network’s Special Report.
The CNN event last night lasted just over an hour and was moderated by Anderson Cooper in Pennsylvania. CNN also offered a town hall to Donald Trump, but his campaign never accepted. Trump earlier rejected a second debate with Harris, who had accepted. That event would have been held on Wednesday evening and would have been hosted by CNN.
The Source with Kaitlan Collins, which regularly runs in CNN’s 9 p.m. ET slot, averaged 783,000 viewers in the third quarter.
The figures are from Nielsen via Fox News.
