VOX - The first post-debate polls say Biden won
To get a methodologically rigorous look at who won the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden if winning is defined as helping their presidential campaigns chances youll have to wait a bit longer.
The indicators we have right now are necessarily incomplete and limited; theyre focus groups of tiny, handpicked samples of undecided voters, or polls of people who watched the debate rather than the electorate at large, or just pundits making stuff up. Plus, the true impact of a debate is often determined in the spin war fought in the hours and days afterward.
Keeping these limitations in mind, overall those preliminary findings so far look better for Biden.
CBS News and YouGov have been tracking respondents in battleground states, and they were able to quickly contact some of those respondents and ask those who watched the Tuesday debate what they thought. Overall, 48 percent said Biden won the debate, while 41 percent said Trump won, and 10 percent said it was a tie. As CBS elections and survey director Anthony Salvanto pointed out on air, this was pretty close to the support for each candidate going in
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