(CNN Business) Nearly a week since his speech at the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump is insisting that he reached a bigger audience than Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, despite Nielsen TV ratings to the contrary. Trump's repeated comments are a window into his ratings fixation — and into the alternative sources of information that he and his supporters rely upon. Convention organizers succeeded in planting stories on numerous pro-Trump websites that said the overall audience for Trump's speech was bigger than the audience for Biden's speech at the virtual Democratic convention one week earlier. So within the Trump media bubble, the President's speech is perceived to be the winner in the ratings race, even though the numbers don't add up. The oranges are counted in lots of different and often sketchy ways.

Source: CNN September 03, 2020 02:25 UTC