Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

 The CSPAN network has placed former President Donald Trump ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential debate held last night in Philadelphia. The poll on social networking reveals 75.2% voted Trump won the debate. 24.8 voted Harris won the debate.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

The New York Post reported, "A Reuters focus group, for example, tracked 10 undecided voters and asked how they plan to vote after watching the debate. Six of them said they had chosen to vote for Trump, while just three said Harris’ performance had swayed them. One remained undecided."

The New York Post also reported, "Over at C-SPAN, an online poll also showed a decided Trump victory, with close to three-quarters of respondents saying he had won. Meanwhile, CNN’s post-debate poll showed Trump expanding a big lead on the question of which candidate can handle the economy best. Before Tuesday’s matchup, Trump led by 18 percentage points on this No.1 issue; afterward, it grew to a 20-point margin."

CSPAN Poll

The main problem working against Harris is the terrible state of the U.S. economy, which occurred under her watch and that of President Joe Biden. Americans are facing terrible financial hardships and associate these problems with Biden and Harris.

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Kamala’s canned debate answers wowed the media — but didn’t convince voters

 Published Sep. 11, 2024, 6:10 p.m. ET - Oftentimes there’s a decided, night-and-day gap between the media’s idea of public perception and actual public perception when it comes to Donald Trump: Just think back to the 2016 campaign. After Tuesday’s big debate in Philadelphia between the former president and Kamala Harris, we may be looking at another big disconnect between the press and the public...

But after the debate, as many in the media swooned over their commanding new queen, a funny thing happened: Polls and focus groups emerged showing her winning on style points, but Trump winning on substance. 

A Reuters focus group, for example, tracked 10 undecided voters and asked how they plan to vote after watching the debate. Six of them said they had chosen to vote for Trump, while just three said Harris’ performance had swayed them. One remained undecided.

Over at C-SPAN, an online poll also showed a decided Trump victory, with close to three-quarters of respondents saying he had won. Meanwhile, CNN’s post-debate poll showed Trump expanding a big lead on the question of which candidate can handle the economy best. Before Tuesday’s matchup, Trump led by 18 percentage points on this No.1 issue; afterward, it grew to a 20-point margin.

So why the disconnect? Here’s one theory: Kamala was too rehearsed. Her answers were too canned. “So I was raised as a middle-class kid,” she said as her first words when answering the moderators’ initial question — a mantra she repeated a few queries later, when again asked directly about the horrible Biden-Harris economy...

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