FOX GOP DEBATE RATINGS DESTROYS JON STEWART’S FINALE: Cue the sad trombone:

As for the warm-up debates, their ratings also outdrew Stewart’s:

“Finally, something Trump-lovers and Trump-haters can agree on: Without him, the ratings wouldn’t have come anywhere near this,” Allahpundit writes at Hot Air. “Which, actually, makes his flirtation with a third-party run last night extra ironic. This guy did the rest of the GOP field a publicity favor so enormous it can really never be repaid.”