This cycle’s Super Tuesday lacked suspense — and that showed in the viewership numbers. About 11.4 million viewers tuned into coverage during the peak hour of 10 p.m.
ET, when the three major broadcast networks joined with the three major cable networks with live coverage, according to early numbers from Nielsen.
That’s far less than the nearly 19 million who tuned in across those networks during the last cycle, 2020. But Super Tuesday 2020 featured the surprise showing of Joe Biden against Bernie Sanders, in a race that was still undoubtedly competitive.
By contrast, there were few surprises in this year’s results, as Donald Trump and Biden dominated their respective contests.
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