Donald Trump has gotten more nightly network news coverage than the entire Democratic field combined

According to the Tyndall Report, which tracks the airtime that the various flagship news programs on NBC, CBS and ABC dedicate to a variety of stories, the 2016 election has received 857 minutes of combined coverage, through Nov 30. With a month to go, that’s already the second biggest total of any pre-election year in the last seven presidential cycles. That might sound like a big number, but the math works out to about 1 minute and 12 seconds on each newscast. The report found, for instance, that the Republican primary race has received more than twice as much coverage as the Democratic contest. “Besides the fact that there are many more Republican candidates than Democratic ones, the GOP debates have made much more news than the Democrats’ [debates],” Tyndall noted.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, unsurprisingly, is the most-covered candidate in the race. In fact, he alone has gotten more airtime (234 minutes) than the entire Democratic field (226 minutes). Two other things stand out: First, Vice President Joe Biden, who flirted with a run but ultimately stayed out of the Democratic race, got far more coverage (56 minutes) than Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (10 minutes), who actually is running and polled well for much of the summer and fall. Second, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) has attracted a paltry seven minutes of coverage, though he’ll likely see more in the near future, now that he’s moved into third place nationally and appears poised to win Iowa.