A Facebook post said, "CNN reports DemDebate had 2.3 million viewers. Trump rally had 6.7 million last night!"
The post vastly underreported the viewership numbers for the Democratic debate aired on CNN; there were 7.3 million viewers on TV alone. As to the number of viewers the Trump rally received, we know that Fox Business, a cable channel that aired the rally in its entirety (as CNN did for the debate), pulled in 662,000 viewers at 8 p.m. and 476,000 viewers at 9 p.m.
Combined, "Hannity" and "Tucker Carlson Tonight," two top shows on Fox News, aired less than 15 minutes of the hour-plus Trump rally. Each show had more than 3 million viewers that night, as they typically do. But it would be a stretch to conclude that the millions who watched the two shows equal millions who tuned in to solely watch Trump’s rally.
The Facebook post makes a claim with numbers that don’t add up. We rate it False.
