Democrats surge to convention ratings win over Republicans

A re-energized Democratic Party, managed to turn that enthusiasm and support into a win, at least when it comes to TV rat Every night of the DNC had more tuning in compared to the corresponding night at th CNN's media correspondent Hadassah Gold joins us now. Had asked, what are the numbers Well, the numbers show this is according to Nielsen. So across the television networks that Nielsen ranks the DNC out, Schoen, the RNC every single night. You can see there all four nights of the DNC out S The RNC, when it comes to the ratings across the four nights, the average was also even greater, 21.8 millions for the DNC versus million for the Republican National Conv And then we look at the actual c speeches of Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump. HARRIS His speech brought in 28.9 million, whereas Trump's bot brought in 28.4 months. Not a huge, marked, huge difference, but we all know that Donald Trum is obsessed with ratings. So I'm sure this is something that might be rankling him now. Though these ratings beat out the 2020 DNC and RNC ratings, but they do lag behind 2016, 201 But keep in mind that the way we watch TV is, of course changing and Nielsen does not rank things like streamers, YouTube, Twitch, social media an So we could even have even more millions of people who were watching on those strea But if you look at also where we when these conventions took plac when Trump took the stage at the it was just days after his assassination attempt. It was the first time he was making a major speech aft he almost lost his life. But Joe Biden was still the cand at that time. He would end up dropping out just days after that. So there's a lot of interest in Kamala Harris as the candidat There's a lot of excitement, a re-energized, re-energized par And also the Democrats just had bigger names at their convention. They had the Clintons, they had the Obamas, they had Oprah, and they had big performers like Stevie Wonder, John Legend And yes, there was Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan at the RNC. But just when you look at the, you know, the number of names, big names, these sort of marquee speakers, the Democrats just had more peop And then, of course, there were all of those rumors that Queen Bey, Queen Beyonce was going to show up and potentially perform or somehow appear at the DNC. Of course, that did not end up h Well, speaking of Beyonce, for e should the DNC have come out and just said on the record she's not coming? Because it did seem to create this parallel narrativ to the obvious special guest who was the vice president accepting the nomination in some ways, Did all this buzz and the failur to just get on the record and ta down to that backfire at all? Well, it's not for nothing. Keep in mind, because multiple people close to the convention were telling CNN on Thursday that they believed that Beyonce was going to be in attendance. And we had major media figures, including people like Gayle King, who was saying on air on CBS that she believed that the rumors were true, that Beyonce was going to show u TMZ also keep in mind, was repor full fact that it was going to happen, that Beyonce was going to show u and Beyonce's own camp didn't come out themselves and shut thi until literally 30 minutes before the vice president was supposed to take the stage. So I think that there is somethi potentially maybe there were some sort of actual conversations happening. There needs to be more reporting into exactly what happened betwe Beyonce and Kamala Harris's camp for everybody. It kind of made sense, right, because Kamala Harris is, of cou using Beyonce a song, Freedom. She got permission from Beyonce to use that song at her campaign And I think when everybody heard that song, Freedom, right before the vice president took the stage, I think a lot of us were thinkin that Beyonce was going to come out from behind the stage and sing it live on that stage, but didn't happen, unfortunately And I want to note that CNN did not officially repo that she was going to be there because the sources that were te that did not have direct knowled it didn't meet our standards. But with the DNC now over. Harris is now, of course, facing calls to do an interview, or at least a town hall or a press conference. What do you think of her strateg so far to resist these calls? I think that she was trying to hold things off for as long as possible because, you know, she was getting a lot of attenti There was a lot of excitement. She was riding the wave as much as she could. But she has said that she is goi some sort of interview by the end of the month. She has about a week left until that end of the month. We have not heard anything from any major network or newspaper or anything like th that she is going to be sitting to do an interview, doing an interview with them. And now while this is, you know, mostly probably journalists and people in the political world who are calling for this to happ the drumbeat is definitely growi and this has become a regular attack line from the Trump campaign. You know, right before I went on air with I was watching Fox News and this was a segment they were talking about. They were saying, where is Kamal And she does need to sit down and answer some tough questions from an independent journalist and had asked really quickly, the Foo Fighters. Right now in the political news, what can you tell us? Yeah, so the Trump campaign played the Foo Fighters song My Hero during tha Kennedy endorsement that he got yesterday as Kennedy walked out, they played the Foo Fighters song My Hero. Foo Fighters have come out and said they did not approve of They want the Trump campaign to stop using it. And they actually said that any that they get from the Trump cam using the song, they're actually going to donate to the Harris Walls campaign cal Hadassah Gold. Thank you.