One Out of Every Eight Trump Supporters Think Hillary Won the Debate

In case you still haven’t gotten the message, it’s starting to look like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did well in Monday night’s presidential debate against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. How well, you ask? So well that in a new Morning Consult poll, one out of every eight Donald Trump supporters says Hillary won. In case you’re wondering, that’s as opposed to just two percent of Hillary Clinton supporters who said that Trump won, and a 49% to 26% split among registered voters in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Other key findings from the poll, taken in partnership with Politico, include:

Hillary Clinton got a small bump over Donald Trump from her performance. Clinton is up THREE POINTS among likely voters in the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of the four-way race for president. Before the debate Trump was up ONE POINT…

–LESTER HOLT WAS SEEN AS FAIR. 42% of respondents said Holt was impartial. 27% said he was more favorable to Clinton and 2% said he favored Trump…

–VOTERS WERE RIVETED. 72% of likely voters watched the debate, and 55% of those viewers watched the whole 95-minute affair. Half of those polled said they would watch the debate again.

In a two-way race, the poll had Clinton ahead by four points, 45%-41%.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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