Debate watchers say, 67% to 33%, that Trump turned in a better performance Thursday. And in 2020, Biden was seen by debate watchers as outperforming Trump in both of their presidential debates. A near-universal 96% of GOP debate watchers say Trump did the better job in the debate, while a more modest 69% of Democratic debate watchers view Biden as the night’s winner. Debate watchers trust Biden over Trump to handle protecting democracy (44% to 38%) and abortion (42% to 34%). Results for the full sample of debate watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.

Source: CNN June 29, 2024 05:15 UTC