Crystal Dawn White
About 23.8 million Americans watch Trump's keynote speech at the Republican National Congress, less than his rival Biden.
Nielsen, a global marketing and analysis company headquartered in New York, USA, on August 28, cited data showing that about 23.8 million Americans watched President Donald Trump's nominated speech at night.
President Trump speaks at the White House on the evening of August 27 Photo: AFP
This is lower than the 24.6 million Americans who watched the nomination speech of former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate at the Democratic National Congress last week.
The audience for Trump's speech this year was also down 25% from the 32.2 million who watched Mr. Trump's speech in 2016 when he received the Republican nomination in his first campaign.
This decline in viewership partly reflects the decline in US television viewership in recent years and the fact that both party congresses this year are held largely online because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biden speaks at the National Congress of the Democratic Party in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 20 Photo: Reuters.
The latest poll results of Morning Consult, a company based in Washington DC, USA, on August 24, Biden is ahead of Trump 10 percentage points nationwide in support rate, respectively 52% and
Trump repeatedly attacked rival Joe Biden and painted a dark picture of America's future if the Democratic candidate was elected, saying that Biden would cause more people to lose their jobs, in his speech accepting the theme.
