Last week, Axios co-founder Mike Allen reported in his morning newsletter that Trump was considering launching a digital media company after his presidency, with the intention of rivaling Fox News. While Trump has leaned on the conservative-friendly cable channel to reach voters, Allen said that Trump has become increasingly upset with the network, evidenced by a spate of recent tweets and retweets pitching alternatives to Fox News such as Newsmax.
Trump has refused to concede the Nov. The president on Sunday acknowledged publicly for the first time that Biden won the election. Trump's comments, made in a seemingly offhand post on Twitter, come as his campaign continues to challenge the results of the election in court and as his administration holds up formal transition processes. However, in subsequent tweets, Trump wrote that he would not concede, and falsely claimed the election was rigged. Skip Navigation.
After that segment on "Reliable Sources" in December, Trump called and "thanked Ruddy for defending him," according to an account in Page Six. In his next appearance on the show, in mid-February, Ruddy rebuked Trump's embattled chief of staff Reince Priebus, saying, "there's a lot of weakness coming out of chief of staff.
The comments raised eyebrows because Trump and Ruddy had spent time together at Mar-a-Lago earlier in the weekend. Was Ruddy relaying a presidential message to Priebus? Or was he freelancing? Some White House aides anonymously downplayed Ruddy's influence, implying he rarely speaks with the president. Ruddy disputed that in a followup interview with me the next day, saying "I've spoken to him about two dozen times since he was elected.
Either way, Priebus seemed to take it seriously -- he texted and talked with Ruddy after the CNN appearance, according to Ruddy. Perhaps Ruddy tries to have it both ways -- he trades on his access to Trump but emphasizes that "I am not speaking for the president. The question of who Ruddy did meet with was left unanswered. Ruddy shot back at Spicer in a Tuesday morning statement that said "Memo to Sean: focus your efforts on exposing the flim-flam Russian allegations against POTUS and highlighting his remarkable achievements!
Don't waste time trying to undermine one of your few allies. Ruddy says Trump is "battle tested". Today, Newsmax says it is in 70 million households. I think lifestyle issues are not as important. We want to be about the future. To highlight how extreme the rating growth has been: Newsmax averaged 37, total prime-time viewers and 30, total day viewers in Q3, according to live-plus-same-day data from Nielsen.
But in October, the network averaged 96, prime-time viewers—almost triple its Q3 average—and 57, total day viewers. And more notably, from the day other news networks called the election for Biden, Nov. From Oct. The two hours before prime time is when Newsmax is doing its most damage. To cap it off, the Nov. As its profile increases post-election, Newsmax has been seeing noticeable advertiser growth across almost every category, according to Ruddy: pharma, health and beauty products, personal care, financial, insurance, food, CPG, lawn and garden, as well as travel and leisure.
However, despite the recent rating surge and revenue growth, most major brands are continuing to keep their distance from Newsmax, as the network is too much of a lightning rod, several ad buyers told Adweek, speaking anonymously.
I think we were pretty fair with Barack Obama.
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