Newsmax’s live coverage of former President Donald Trump’s Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, rally on Saturday beat Fox News in key ratings, according to Nielsen. Click here to join Todd’s private Facebook group for Conservatives

Newsmax was the third most watched cable network during the Trump rally speech, with an audience so large it even surpassed the combined ratings of CNN and MSNBC, pulling in more than 21% of both networks.

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Nielsen also reported that Newsmax had a total audience of 1.7 million viewers for Trump’s speech, with its overall coverage drawing over 1.9 million viewers.

Newsmax estimates an additional 1.2 million viewers tuned into its rally coverage through its App and OTT streaming platforms like Samsung+ and Roku, giving the network more than 3 million total viewers.

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Newsmax had more than 1.03 million viewers during the Trump speech, with Fox News drawing just 942,000 viewers in the same time period.

Wow! Really big T.V. & Streaming Ratings at the Rally last Saturday night in Pennsylvania. The overflow crowd was amazing! Thousands of people not able to get into the Arena. New Arena attendance record set. Biden had almost no crowd, but the Fake News never says that, or never shows an overlay comparison. MAGA has NEVER been stronger! Very cool & professional coverage by Newsmax, especially the two hours of pre-speech. Rumble, as always, was great! Next Rally in Ohio in 9 days, Saturday Night.
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The Newsmax ratings were even more impressive considering the network is carried in 20 million fewer homes than Fox News, but still outpaced the cable giant.

During the rally, CNN reported only 406,000 viewers, and MSNBC 444,000.

In his first rally since the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home, Trump pulled no punches, firing back at President Joe Biden’s own speech earlier in the week from Philadelphia. Continue reading at Newsmax.

TRUMP: “We are going to end the Nancy Pelosi political career, the Biden political career. We’re going to end it. Our country’s going to hell.” #TrumpRally #SaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/wjrvB2eV3T
— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 3, 2022

TRUMP on Biden’s speech: “The most vicious, hateful, and divisive speech ever delivered by a [U.S.] President… you’re all enemies of the state. He’s an enemy of the state, if you want to know the truth. The enemy of the state is him and the group that controls him.” #TrumpRally pic.twitter.com/ImTkCtTBMS
— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 3, 2022

TRUMP on the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid: “One of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history… a travesty of justice that made a mockery of America’s laws, traditions, and principles before the entire world.” #TrumpRally

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— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP: “We are being assaulted by the same group that the FBI & DOJ, just a few years ago, declared no reasonable prosecutor would charge ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton after she set up a secret, illegal server… and then deleted, acid washed, 30,000 emails.” #TrumpRally pic.twitter.com/tHi19RFaza
— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP: “I was tougher in Russia than any President by far. I’m the one that stopped Nord Stream II, the pipeline. I’m the one that did the big sanctions. I guarantee you one thing: Putin was NOT going into Ukraine [if I was President].” #TrumpRally

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— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP: “Weirdo Mark Zuckerberg confessed that in 2020, the FBI went to Facebook & the media & gave them the false narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop from hell was Russian disinformation, even though they knew that was not true.” #TrumpRally

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— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP: “Now you have the privilege of having 87,000 IRS agents go after you…” #TrumpRally #SaveAmerica

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— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP on Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness: “How unfair is it to all of those people — many of you are here — that paid & worked so hard?” #TrumpRally #SaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/OaWvbxDnSh
— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP: “They turned Afghanistan into the greatest humiliation our country has ever seen…” #TrumpRally #SaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/oGJFHPm6Cr
— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

TRUMP: “@DrOz did an examination on me… ‘He’s extremely healthy, really a very, very, fine, fit man but, he should lose 20 or 25 pounds.’ I was so angry, I didn’t speak to him for years.” #TrumpRally #SaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/dhgSgcUUGt
— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 4, 2022

Newsmax Beats Fox News in Ratings During Trump Rally

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