Shame for CNN’s Jake Tapper while his rating valleys fall in the midst of Biden ‘Cover-up’ Book Tour: Numbers fall with faster than rival CNN, MSNBC shows

Jake Tapper from CNN sees a poorer decrease in viewers compared to the rest of the premier shows of the wrestling network, and even worse than one of the most important figures accused of helping to help the decline of President Biden, Jen Psaki of MSNBC.

Mr Tapper has had to deal with harsh criticism from the left and the judge around the release of his new book, co -written with Alex Thompson of Axios, “Original Sin” about efforts to hide the cognitive and physical decine of President Biden.

While his book made the explosive statement to expose a systematic effort to hide Mr Biden’s condition, his viewers seem to take more of a beating than that of one of his competitors who have long been accused of participating in the alleged cover-up, Mrs. Psaki.

In May the month was released “Original sin”, CNN saw its Primetime Reviews drop 18 percent from April, and the total day viewer falls by 14 percent. In comparison with May 2024, CNN fell by 18 percent in the Primetime hours and 25 percent total day, according to Nielsen data.

While the most important programming of the network saw a double -digit decrease, Mr. Tapper’s viewers took a bigger hit and lost a quarter of his audience compared to May 2024.

Last month the controversial host was an average of 525,000 in total viewers, down 25 percent compared to last year and his worst month since April 2015.

That number also represents a decrease of almost 21 percent compared to the 662,000 total viewers Mr. Tapper average during the first quarter of 2025.

Conservatives have accused the CNN guesthouse of Hypocrisis for writing about the physical and cognitive state of Mr Biden only after he had left his office and the following years of the host refused to press the White House about the age of the president in real time. In the meantime, left -wing commentators suggested Mr. Tapper “Surrade” his audience to try to address more conservatives with his book.

CNN insists that Nielsen’s reviews are not the “true reach” of Mr. Capture the tapper.

“The award-winning program ‘The Lead With Jake Tapper’ reaches a broad worldwide target groups in CNN, CNN International and the streaming platform of Max. No metric can record the actual reach and the impact of a program of the national interview,” said a CNN spokesperson in a statement.

Although Mr Tapper now says that he has ‘humility’ about how he has dealt with questions about Mr Biden’s age while he was in the White House and now trying to share the truth of the situation, he seems to pay a greater price than one of the figures that have long been accused of hiding the state of the president. Mrs. Psaki served as the Minister of Mr. until 2022. Biden’s Witte Huis and now organizes the hour from 9 p.m. on MSNBC Tuesday to Friday.

Her debut evening on May 6 brought only 1.2 million viewers. Since then her viewers have shrunk; Her audience does not have 1 million in routine and she has an average of 973,000 viewers.

That represents a decrease of 20 percent compared to May 2024, when Alex Wagner from MSNBC organized the hour of 9 p.m. Tuesday to Friday.

Mrs. Psaki has repeatedly insisted that during her time in the White House she had the version of Mr. Biden never saw those millions of Americans Grudete during his debate in June 2024 with Mr. Trump.

In one interview With the media correspondent from NPR, David Folkenflik, after “Original Sin” was released, Mrs. Psaki said: “I spent time with [Mr. Biden] Every day, and I had never seen the person who was at that debate stage. ‘

“Now aging happens quickly. Is it aggressively happening in the previous year, the six months before, the four months before? I don’t know the answer to that question,” she added.

Although Mrs. Psaki suggests that Mr. Biden’s decline only happened after she had left office, Mr. Tapper’s new book contains several moments at which assistants and allies of the president already expressed concern about his health in his 2020 campaign. At the time, conservatives also gave concern about his mental sharpness.

Mr. People’s Flick said That “researchers from the internet archive assessed the episodes about the new show of Psaki” and discovered that “she did not bring the insight of that Insider to her viewers in the health or mental sharpness of Biden.”

He also said that the former secretary of Biden Press refused to give an “extra comment” on Mr Tapper’s book, but “instead has attention focused on Trump and the threat she says.”