The Republican Presidential Debate was Thursday's highest-rated cable original with a giant 5.3 adults 18-49 rating, the highest ever on the network and highest on cable for decades.
24 million viewers, and nearly 8 million adults 25-54 watched the debate from 9-11PM EST.
That's about 8 times as many viewers as the first Republican candidate of the 2012 election and more than double the number of viewers for FNC's coverage of Obama and Romney's final debate.
