MSNBC’s audience has tanked since the election. The liberal network’s viewership is down by 47 percent overall since Nov. 5 and by 52 percent during primetime, the latest Nielsen ratings show. Morning Joe’s numbers had already fallen by 38 percent after hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski flew to Mar-a-Lago to extend an olive branch to president-elect Donald Trump.

M SNBC’s primetime audience has dipped 53% since the week before the election, according to new Nielsen ratings data, a steep dropoff for the left-of-center network riv

When Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. mused this week about Musk buying MSNBC, they made reference to the network's poor ratings as of late. A week after the US election, the New York Times reported that MSNBC had seen a 39% decline in viewers from October.