Jake Tapper is all over the place today, doing interviews to push his new ebook about Biden’s psychological decline, but it surely’s not serving to the rankings on his CNN present.
In Could, Tapper’s present noticed its lowest rankings since 2015.
Is it attainable that Tapper’s ebook and the claims he’s making are literally hurting him? As he makes the media rounds and talks about how the complete journalism trade simply ‘missed the story’ about Biden’s psychological decline, he’s merely reminding the general public that he and different ‘reporters’ had been a significant a part of the scandal. Maybe that’s a part of the explanation why persons are tuning him out.
FOX Information studies:
Jake Tapper’s CNN present hits lowest rankings since 2015 regardless of new Biden ebook buzz, intense publicity tour
CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in practically a decade in Could regardless of a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of consideration.
Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s new ebook, “Unique Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cowl-Up, and His Disastrous Option to Run Once more,” was launched in Could to a lot fanfare. The ebook helped set the latest information cycle with new accusations of the Biden White Home hiding the reality concerning the former president’s health for workplace.
To advertise the mission, Tapper has launched into a wide-ranging ebook tour that landed him on a wide range of podcasts, discuss reveals and cable information. The ebook has additionally been promoted relentlessly throughout CNN, however the highlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to present him a lift in viewership.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 whole viewers from April 28 by means of Could 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s viewers in its timeslot from the identical interval final 12 months within the course of.
A part of Tapper’s downside is that he thinks nobody remembers something.
Jake Tapper explains how the Biden White Home was in a position to “promote” the Low cost Fakes false narrative to a “gullible press” together with NYT and WAPO.
What Jake fails to say is that this “gullible press” included his personal community.
After all, the “gullible press” cowl is a lie in… pic.twitter.com/4kNG1lXPGR
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) Could 29, 2025
It’s ironic. Tapper wrote this ebook to absolve himself and media from the Biden charade, however ultimately it’d really be his undoing.
