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DNC Brings in Higher Ratings Than RNC All Four Nights

The numbers are in, and the viewership of the Democratic National Convention blew last month's Republican National Convention out of the water.

These numbers don’t even factor in the hundreds of thousands who viewed the convention on independent streaming services like YouTube, Twitch, and other social media platforms. From ratings to crowd sizes, the former reality TV star has harbored a longtime obsession with quantifying how much people like him — a fixation that Democrats made a point to poke fun of during the convention. On Tuesday, Former President Barack Obama — who Trump famously, and falsely, claimed had a smaller inauguration crowd than him — mocked his successor’s obsession with size as a sign he was that he was compensating for … other deficiencies.

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