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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

MSNBC Interview With Liz Cheney Leads Cable News With 3.2M Viewers


The Liz Cheney interview on MSNBC drew a big audience: 3.15 million viewers, which made The Rachel Maddow Show the most-watched show in all of cable news Monday night, well ahead of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, which had a total audience of 1.936 million viewers, and CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, which drew a total audience of just 375,000 viewers.

Forbes reports Maddow also won among viewers 25-54, the key demographic most valued by advertisers, drawing a total audience of 249,000 viewers, ahead of FNC’s Hannity (221,000 viewers) and CNN’s The Source (70,000 viewers). The Rachel Maddow Show pushed MSNBC to an overall win in prime time, with 2.293 million viewers, ahead of Fox News (1.996 million viewers) and CNN (402,000 viewers). Fox News won in prime in the key demo, with a total audience of 230,000 viewers to MSNBC’s 179,000 viewers and CNN’s 79,000 viewers.

Cheney, who has been fiercely critical of former President Donald Trump, made the trip to MSNBC to talk about her new memoir and her concerns about what might happen should Donald Trump win in 2024.

Earlier in the day Monday, Liz Cheney said the stakes in the 2024 presidential election are far higher than one party winning over another—that democracy itself will be on the ballot. In an interview Monday morning on NBC’s Today, Cheney told Savannah Guthrie that “a vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in.”

Cheney said she believes that if Trump wins and returns to the White House, he would move to extend his stay in office beyond his second term. “You think he would try to stay in power forever?” Guthrie asked.

“Absolutely,” Cheney said. “He’s already done it once. And in fact, if you look at what he did in the run-up to January 6th, in terms of his pressure on the vice president not to count legitimate electoral votes, his pressure on the Department of Justice, on state officials, and then refusing to send help when the Capitol was under attack, he’s already attempted to seize power.”

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