South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg drew 1.1 million viewers to his Fox News town hall Sunday night.
According to early Nielsen Media Research data, the Fox News event with the 2020 Democratic candidate earned almost double the amount of viewers than CNN's town hall with him on March 10, which averaged 545,000 viewers.
The town hall on “Fox News Sunday” was moderated by Fox News host Chris Wallace and was held in Claremont, New Hampshire, which is along the Vermont border.
Buttigieg's town hall aired in the 7 p.m. time slot, and his viewership was a 22 per cent increased compared to the 2019 average of regular programming at the time. The event also delivered 172,000 viewers in the key demographic of 25-54-year-olds.
He also received a standing ovation from the crowd after his closing statement.
The Indiana mayor was the third Democratic candidate of this election cycle to appear on Fox News for a town hall event. Of the three, he drew the least amount of viewers.
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg brought in 1.1 million viewers from his Fox News town hall on Sunday, which was almost double than watched his CNN town hall in March
Buttigieg was the third Democrat of the 24 candidates to participate in a Fox News town hall
The millennial mayor, who is the youngest candidate at 37-years-old, received a standing ovation from the crowd present at the town hall in New Hampshire, which is the first primary state
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders had the most-watched town hall of the year when he was the first Democrat to appear in a Fox News town hall. He garnered 2.6 millions viewers from the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania event.
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar also agreed to a town hall earlier this month, which took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – and attracted 1.6 million viewers.
A fourth candidate, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has already agreed to do a Fox News town hall on June 2 from Iowa.
The first two events were co-moderated by Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier, and the second two slated Wallace as the moderator.
Buttigieg, who is openly gay and has been married to his husband Chasten since June 2018, was a former long-shot candidate with almost no name recognition as a small-town mayor from Indiana.
The millennial mayor climbed the ranks swiftly, and many times ranks from third to fifth place among the 24 Democratic candidates– some, like former Vice President Joe Biden, have much more notoriety than Buttigieg.
Buttigieg is the youngest Democratic candidate running in 2020 at 37-years-old.
Both independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who identifies as a Democratic socialist, and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar already participated in town halls with Fox News
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will be the fourth 2020 Democrat to participate in a Fox News town hall on June 2. She defended her decision to appear on the network by saying she wanted tor each all voters, even those who
