Final Thursday, Donald Trump dominated out a second presidential debate with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Republican voters disagree with him.
A new Civiqs ballot carried out for Day by day Kos ballot reveals {that a} plurality of Republican voters (46%) suppose there ought to be one other debate, whereas 42% suppose there shouldn’t.
However that’s not the one facet of the talk the place Trump and his voters don’t fairly see eye to eye.
“Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris,” he insisted on his Fact Social platform. These polls Trump was touting—like an online ballot from the far-right outlet Newsmax—aren’t precisely high-quality polls.
However Republicans aren’t as passionate about Trump’s supposed win as he’s. The brand new Civiqs ballot finds that solely 66% stated Trump gained, whereas 12% stated Harris gained. That’s a stark distinction from Democratic voters’ view of the talk: 94% suppose Harris gained, and solely 2% suppose she misplaced. Given how polarized America’s politics are, you wouldn’t count on a 28-percentage-point gulf between partisans saying their candidate gained a debate.
In different phrases, Democratic voters felt significantly better about their candidate’s debate efficiency than Republicans did about their candidate.
In fact, Trump has expertise in turning off even his most loyal supporters. A latest Wall Avenue Journal article discovered that persons are certainly leaving Trump’s rallies early, as Harris claimed and Trump disputed in the course of the debate. And people early exits are doubtless as a result of how a lot time he spends rambling incoherently about issues like “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” and the way bitter he nonetheless is about shedding the 2020 election. The New York Instances discovered that at three latest rallies, his speeches averaged over an hour and a half, with people dipping out the longer he rambled.
“We thought it was our best debate ever—it was my best debate ever, I think, and it was very interesting,” Trump stated within the media spin room following the Sept. 10 debate.
If that’s the case, possibly Republicans don’t need one other debate.
