Jake Tapper is in all places 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 Could, 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 the whole journalism trade simply ‘missed the story’ about Biden’s psychological decline, he’s merely reminding the general public that he and different ‘reporters’ have been a serious a part of the scandal. Maybe that’s a part of the rationale why persons are tuning him out.
FOX News stories:
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 almost a decade in Could 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 Could 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 challenge, Tapper has launched into a wide-ranging guide tour that landed him on a wide range of podcasts, discuss reveals and cable information. The guide has additionally been promoted relentlessly throughout CNN, however the highlight on Tapper has seemingly failed to offer him a lift in viewership.
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 complete viewers from April 28 by way of Could 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s viewers in its timeslot from the identical interval final yr 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 capable of “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’d truly be his undoing.