Overnight returns give the FNC debate a 11.5 rating among Nielsen’s metered market households. That’s up more than 15 percent from the 9.9 rating that the last GOP debate grossed between CNN and Telemundo. All told, that debate averaged 14.5 million viewers, which made it the most-watched of the year at the time. (On CNN alone, the debate pulled a 9.0 in households and 12.6 million viewers.)
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Thursday marked the first time Trump and FNC host and debate moderator Megyn Kelly shared screen time since butting heads at the first GOP debate on Aug. 8. His public issues with the Kelly File host, stemming from her pushing him on his past remarks about women, was one of the reasons cited for his skipping the last Fox debate in January.
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