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SOTU Ratings Up Dramatically, over 32 million – HotAir

Was Taylor Swift at the State of the Union speech and I just didn’t notice? We’ve probably already spent too much time dissecting Joe Biden’s rendition of “Angry Old Man Yells at Clouds,” but the reality is that there were a lot of people watching that speech. Viewership was up a whopping 18% as compared to last year’s SOTU, with more than 32 million people tuning in. That doesn’t necessarily translate to good news for Biden as we’ll discuss in a moment, but it was a welcome sign for the news networks. Viewership wasn’t evenly divided among the networks, however. Fox News ran away with the ratings victory, with their three primary outlets accounting for nearly 8 million viewers. Nobody else even came close. 

Fox News Channel was America’s go-to network for President Biden’s third State of the Union address on Thursday, drawing more viewers than any other network.

A whopping 5.8…

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