The New York Post reports Megyn Kelly had 31% of the total air time, far more than any candidate.
Trump became the focus of Thursday’s forum right away. All the Fox news moderators tagged him for slanted questions.
“I don’t think they like me very much,” Trump said.
Later, Trump wrote on Twitter: “I really enjoyed the debate tonight even though the @foxnews trio, especially @megynkelly, was not very good or professional.” In another message, he wrote that Kelly “really bombed.” He retweeted several messages from others who criticized Fox, including one who wrote that “Fox viewers give low marks to bimbo @MegynKelly.”
The whole NY Post report is here.
Fox had attracted attention prior to the debate for deciding to include 10 of the 17 declared candidates in the prime-time debate. The other candidates competed in a forum that began at 5 p.m. Eastern to an audience of one-quarter the size. Still, even the earlier forum attracted a larger audience than all but five of 18 Republican debates televised during the 2012 election cycle.
The most-watched GOP primary debate for the 2012 election, on ABC in December 2011, had a mere 7.6 million people, Nielsen said.
Fox attracted just under 12 million viewers for its 2012 Election Night coverage, its previous standard for biggest audience.
