Democratic debate ratings have sunk to a new low, with just 6.6 million viewers tuning in to Wednesday night's broadcast on MSNBC, according to Nielsen.

The fifth debate, which saw ten candidates take to the stage in Atlanta, failed to garner widespread interest as viewership was down 29% from last month's fourth debate on CNN.

In a worrying sign for network executives and Democratic hopefuls alike, it seems much of the country is tuning out amid political fatigue, despite the impending 2020 Presidential Election.

MSNBC states that the Wednesday night's debate attracted an additional 1.3 million live video streams, but the numbers are still way down in comparison to when Democratic hopefuls first took to the stage back in June.

The first Democratic debate, held across two nights on June 26 and 27, managed to attract a massive audience of 18.1 million, although it was broadcast on MSNBC as well as sister networks NBC and Telemundo.

Democratic debate ratings have sunk to a new low, with just 6.6 million viewers tuning in to Wednesday night's broadcast on MSNBC, according to Nielsen. The 10 hopefuls are pictured on stage in Atlanta prior to the commencement of the debate

Some might attribute Wednesday night's lackluster ratings to the fact that impeachment hearings into President Trump were broadcast earlier in the day.

However, only 11.4 million tuned in to watch those hearings, according to Variety, despite the fact they were broadcast on NBC, ABC, CBS and three cable news channels.

That number was down more than 2 million from the 13.8 million people who watched the first day of testimony during which diplomats William Taylor and George Kent spoke about President Donald Trump.

No doubt a ratings-obsessed Trump is grinning over the lackluster ratings of Wednesday night's Democratic debate

But the impeachment hearings as a whole have failed to attract the numbers that previous political hearings have been able to.

Last year, 20.4 million people watched Brett Kavanaug's hearing for his Supreme Court nomination following sexual misconduct allegations.

Meanwhile, in 2017 19.5 million people tuned in to watch the Congressional testimony by former FBI Director James Comey.