“I was shocked, I love research and it gave me cause for pause because I was bashing Trump on the show,” Cohen told a small group of reporters at the Winter 2017 Television Critics Association tour on Tuesday. (Cocktails were served, of course.) “The day after Election Day I said, ‘Guess what [viewers]? You guys were the only polls that mattered!’” Evidently that put Bravo way out in front of the mainstream news media and cable news channels, all of which declared Hillary Clinton the likely winner in the election.
“It looks like I have a lot of Trump voters who are viewers of my show,” he said. “That’s something to be conscious of. It was surprising. We were right and everyone else was wrong. I was also kind of proud of my audience, if I can say that. Maybe I just have a lot of Electoral College voters watching the show because Hillary won the popular vote.”
Inauguration Day will be a day off for Cohen who jokes, “I’ll be doing deep breathing yoga,” so he won’t be able to comment that night on his show. But his plans for the day may turn up on the show in some form.
“We’re going to do something, I decided today,” he revealed when I asked how he would spend Inauguration Day. “We’re going to celebrate the diversity of New York City, that’s our log line. But I don’t know how that’s going to manifest itself. A friend and I are going to hit the streets all day and I don’t know what’s going to happen.”