Even majority of Dems don’t assume Biden received debate: ballot

It’s not simply the pundits — even a majority of Democrats don’t assume President Biden received Thursday’s debate, in accordance with a brand new ballot commissioned by The Submit.

Respondents overwhelmingly mentioned former President Donald Trump emerged victorious (49% to Biden’s 17%) — with the vast majority of Democrats additionally indicating that Biden didn’t win. 9 p.c of the Dems polled mentioned Trump scored over Biden, 45% mentioned nobody, and 6% didn’t know, in accordance with polling performed by Leger.

Solely 40% of Democrats mentioned Biden received, which pales compared to the 93% of Republicans who felt Trump received.

Forward of debate evening, Biden was up 45% to 43% among the many subset of voters who mentioned they plan on casting ballots in November’s election. After the match-up, Trump jumped up 50% to 42%.

When requested whether or not they watched the complete verbal bout, 37% of the respondents mentioned sure, whereas 22% acknowledged they tuned in for a few of it, 13% noticed clips of it, and 28% didn’t see any of it.

Total, a mere 42% of the pattern that watched that debate described it as “good,” whereas 49% mentioned it was “dangerous.”

Practically 48 million folks noticed the 90-minute conflict onstage in Atlanta, though that determine doesn’t account for many who could have watched it on-line, in accordance with preliminary Nielsen information. The determine is down sharply from the 73 million, not counting on-line viewers, who watched Trump and Biden’s first debate in 2020.

Thursday evening’s showdown was the earliest presidential debate of the trendy period.

Biden’s crew had pitched the CNN debate to Trump in Might after months of the previous president taunting the present commander in chief and champing on the bit for a face-off.

Afterward, a cacophony of Democrats erupted in panic over Biden’s freezing up onstage, struggles to reply questions coherently and mumbling.

The Submit ballot was taken on-line from June 27–28 and surveyed 1,001 voters. It featured a margin of error of plus or minus 3.09 factors.

Biden’s crew insists that he nonetheless plans to debate Trump on Sept. 10, a face-off is about to be hosted by CBS.