The Fox debate drew 12.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen. But that metric measures the average concurrent viewers of a program. The total viewership of the debate is many millions more. While those numbers didn’t come close to Fox’s record-breaking 2015 debate, they were far higher than what Fox News executives were hoping for.
While X does not publicly disclose video views, Mashable reported that as of Thursday, 14.8 million people had watched at least 2 seconds of the Trump interview. A small fraction of that 14.8 million will have watched any significant amount of the 46-minute video.