June 28, 2024
Roughly 8 in 10 registered voters who watched the debate (81%) say it had no effect on their choice for president, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS. Another 14% said that it made them reconsider but didn’t change their mind, while 5% said it changed their minds about whom to vote for.
Roughly equal shares of Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters said the debate had changed their mind.
Debate watchers’ views of Biden did dip slightly following the debate: Just 31% viewed him favorably, compared with 37% in a survey of the same voters taken prior to the debate. By contrast, 43% of debate watchers viewed Trump favorably, similar to the 40% with positive views of him prior to Thursday’s event.
And 48% of debate watchers say Trump better addressed concerns about his ability to handle the presidency, with 23% saying Biden did a better job and 22% that neither candidate did. Another 7% thought both candidates did an equally good job allaying concerns.
The poll’s results reflect opinions of the debate only among those voters who tuned in and aren’t representative of the views of the full voting public – in their demographics, their political preferences or the level of attention they pay to politics. Debate watchers in the poll were 5 points likelier to be Republican-aligned than Democratic-aligned, making for an audience that was slightly more GOP-leaning than all registered voters nationally.
Among those debate watchers, 48% say they’d only consider voting for Trump, 40% that they’d only consider voting for Biden, 2% that they’re considering both candidates, and 11% that they aren’t considering voting for either.
See other findings from the CNN Flash Poll here.
Methodology: The CNN poll was conducted by text message with 565 registered US voters who said they watched the debate Thursday, and the poll findings are representative of the views of debate-watchers only. Respondents were recruited to participate before the debate and were selected via a survey of members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel recruited using probability-based sampling techniques. Results for the full sample of debate watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/cnn-debate-trump-biden-06-27-24/index.html
I think that both performed rather foolishly. The one sounded like a nursing home patient and the other did what he does best, tell lies.
The moderators managed to get an answer out of Trump about Poopin’s terms in Ukraine and said they were not acceptable. As far as I know he’s never publicly commented on that.
He never said that himself. It was a yes-no question. Very easy to lie to. No sound bite on record. In his mind, he was probably thinking, “No, I wouldn’t call them acceptable–I’d call them quite generous.”
Hmm
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It is something that I liked to hear.
I am still worried, but it is better than a remark about how brilliant putin is and how well is getting along.
^b%rt
So, do you believe what he said, that he disagrees with muscovy’s terms?
A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin (And Kim-jung-un and Xi)
The debate was a disaster, plain and simple. Biden not only should be in a nursing home but based on the debate I now firmly believe Biden is simply a puppet whose strings are manipulated by who knows who. Trump is a lying bully and would be a disaster for Ukraine. Perhaps the dems will put Biden to rest and put someone who is capable.
Indeed.
Don’t they really have a charismatic person somewhere?
^b€rt
“Folks, I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth … I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done!” 👊
— President Joe Biden
I really, really, really, really hope that the Dems have finally awakened to the fact that their chances to win the WH with Biden are piss poor.
If you thought the debate was bad, you really won’t like the swimsuit competition.
🤮😂