3 reasons why impeachment fatigue has already set in
By Joe Concha, Opinion Contributor — 11/18/19 03:30 PM EST
Less than a week into publicly-televised impeachment hearings, the public’s overall interest in the historic proceedings is relatively low.
And that’s not a good sign for Democrats.
The first day of the impeachment hearings were watched by nearly 13.8 million people across multiple broadcast and cable outlets. So that's a strong number showing an engaged nation, right?
Nope. And here’s why:
The 13.8 million people who tuned in on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN and PBS marks a 31 percent drop from the number of people who watched former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee in June 2017, which delivered more than 19 million viewers.
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