Donald Trump touts highest ratings after Fox News town hall

Former President Donald Trump's town hall event with Fox News' Laura Ingraham was the most-watched cable news show Tuesday, reaching more than 3.2 million viewers on average, according to the network.

The hour-long event, which was taped Tuesday afternoon and aired during The Ingraham Angle's weekly 7 p.m. EST slot, took place in Greenville, South Carolina, just days before Republican voters do not vote in primaries in the state. Trump is well ahead of his last major Republican challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who gave her own speech in Greenville the same day, vowing to stay in the race for the White House.

“Congratulations to Laura Ingraham for achieving the highest ratings in the history of her hit show last night,” Trump wrote in a message published Wednesday in Truth Social. “That beat all comers for the night/week. It happened to be an interview with me at the mayoralty of the great state of South Carolina.”

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall with host Laura Ingraham at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday. The event was top rated… Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall with host Laura Ingraham at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday. The event was the highest-rated cable newscast of the day. More from Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

When reached for comment, Fox News directed Newsweek to a statement released Wednesday that said Trump's town hall garnered 60 percent of the total cable news audience on the day it aired. The network also claimed that during the 7 p.m. EST timeslot, Fox News “quadrupled CNN's total viewers” and “beat MSNBC by a triple-digit average.”

“Last night's town hall marked the highest-rated broadcast of The Ingraham Angle since she took over,” the release added, noting that Trump's town hall “saw a 45 percent increase in total numbers of viewers” compared to the 2024 average.

Additional footage of Trump's conversation with Ingraham aired Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Trump's conversation with Ingraham also beat out a Fox News-hosted town hall with Haley earlier in the week. The event, hosted by host John Roberts, aired Sunday at 5 p.m. EST and was viewed 910,000 times, according to Wednesday's press release. However, Haley's town hall “outperformed” and “outperformed the average of all CNN programs” the same night it aired, Fox News said.

Tuesday's event, like many of Trump's public appearances, was riddled with misleading statements, including comments related to the former president's classified federal documents affair in Florida. Trump also compared himself to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, arguing that the treatment Navalny received under the Kremlin is the same treatment the former president received in court.

Trump was corrected at one point by Ingraham after he claimed that “there was automatically fraud” in an election when a mail-in voting system was used. Ingraham briefly cut the former president off after the comment, noting, “Well, there's mail-in voting in Florida, and you won hugely.”

“When you walk into a polling place, like in a well-run state, they look at you, you give voter ID, you give all kinds of ID,” Trump said Tuesday, ignoring the Ingraham's efforts to correct it. “It would be very difficult to cheat [on] a mass scale.

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