DNC viewership spiked on final night thanks to Harris speech

Viewers tuned into the Democratic National Convention’s final night on Thursday en masse, spiking during Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech and around when a highly anticipated special guest, rumored to be Beyoncé, was proposed to show up.

Speculation had been rife throughout the day that a musical heavyweight, likely Beyoncé or Taylor Swift, would show for a performance. Anticipation reached a fever pitch when celebrity news outlet TMZ reported Beyoncé was indeed going to perform, but it proved incorrect.