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Nuthin' but the truth
Echo chamber of bias confirmation.How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls.
Early results show Harris won by a historically large margin. And Trump voters acknowledged that and said it could impact their votes.
We’ve so far seen two instant polls — one from CNN and another from YouGov.
The CNN poll showed Harris winning the debate 63 percent to 37 percent among debate-watchers, while the YouGov poll showed her winning 54-31 among registered voters who watched at least some of the debate, with 14 percent unsure. (Trump has cited his own improbably wide margins in some unscientific online polls — posting a series of them on Truth Social — but those polls don’t reflect the actual electorate.)
Notably, those margins are close to the ones Trump racked up after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27, a performance that ultimately led him to drop out of the 2024 race. Back then, the CNN poll showed Trump winning the debate 67-33, while the YouGov poll showed Trump winning 43-22.