The candidates — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — will take the stage at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

NewsNation set a viewership record with the GOP debate. It’s still unclear, however, if the network can be a threat to Fox News or even Newsmax.

More than 4 million people watched the fourth Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday evening on NewsNation and The CW. A total of 1.6 million viewers watched the debate on NewsNation, marking the cable news channel’s largest audience in its history,

That’s what a debate is for — candidates to really talk about the differences in their own policies,” Vargas said.

Upstart cable TV network NewsNation is praising the number of viewers who tuned in Wednesday for the fourth Republican presidential primary debate at the University of Alabama, even if the TV audience was the lowest among the four primary debates this year.

A total of 4 million people tuned into the fourth presidential debate, which aired Wednesday night on NewsNation and CW. That was down from the 7.5 million who watched the third debate.