According to data from industry research firm Nielsen, the Democratic Party convention achieved better ratings than its Republican counterpart for the third year in a row.

Around 20.1 million people watched the Democratic Party Convention on Wednesday, as Nielsen confirmed. This marks the third time in a row that the broadcast has reached more than 20 million viewers.

Speakers on Wednesday included Treasury Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former President Bill Clinton, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz delivered an acceptance speech for the vice presidential nomination.

On the third night of its broadcast, the RNC attracted around 17.9 million viewers – a difference of around 11 percent from the third day of the DNC. In prime time, the vice presidential candidate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, gave a speech.

The RNC’s most successful night, however, was Thursday, July 18 – when an average of 25.3 million Americans tuned in. The highlight of the night was former President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated acceptance speech – his first major speech since the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. Viewership peaked when Trump took the stage, drawing a whopping 28.4 million viewers.

Privately, Trump boasted about his RNC ratings, calling them “tremendous.” Rolling Stone was reported on Monday before the convention began. Two anonymous sources told the magazine that the former president had questioned people close to him about whether Harris would beat his ratings when she took the stage on Thursday.

Despite strong ratings night after night, this year’s DNC struggled to reach younger voters. Only 851,000 tuned in on the first night of the convention. By comparison, the first night of the 2016 DNC drew more than 2.4 million voters in the 18-34 age group.

However, with each subsequent broadcast, more and more younger viewers joined the show. On Wednesday evening, there were 968,000 viewers in this age group – an increase of 13% compared to the first evening of the party conference.