Donald Trump's surprisingly durable campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination continues to be ratings rocket fuel for TV news.
An hourlong interview with Trump taped earlier in the day with CNN's "New Day" co-anchor Chris Cuomo drew 1.1 million in the 9 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesday, according to Nielsen. The audience is the largest for the cable news channel in that hour since April 28, when it covered the anti-police riots in Baltimore. Among viewers in the 25 to 54 age group, the hour scored 369,000.
CNN was still second in the hour to "The Kelly File" on Fox News Channel, which had 2.