Jake Tapper is in every single place nowadays, doing interviews to push his new guide about Biden’s psychological decline, however it’s not serving to the rankings on his CNN present.
In Might, Tapper’s present noticed its lowest rankings since 2015.
Is it potential that Tapper’s guide and the claims he’s making are literally hurting him? As he makes the media rounds and talks about how all the journalism business simply ‘missed the story’ about Biden’s psychological decline, he’s merely reminding the general public that he and different ‘reporters’ have been a significant a part of the scandal. Maybe that’s a part of the explanation why individuals are tuning him out.
FOX News experiences:
Jake Tapper’s CNN present hits lowest rankings since 2015 regardless of new Biden guide buzz, intense publicity tour
CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in practically a decade in Might regardless of a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of consideration.
Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s new guide, “Unique Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cowl-Up, and His Disastrous Option to Run Once more,” was launched in Might to a lot fanfare. The guide 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 venture, Tapper has launched into a wide-ranging guide tour that landed him on quite a lot of podcasts, speak reveals and cable information. The guide has additionally been promoted relentlessly throughout CNN, however the highlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to provide him a lift in viewership.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 complete viewers from April 28 by way of Might 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.
In fact, the “gullible press” cowl is a lie in… pic.twitter.com/4kNG1lXPGR
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 29, 2025
It’s ironic. Tapper wrote this guide to absolve himself and media from the Biden charade, however ultimately it would truly be his undoing.
