Final Thursday, Donald Trump ruled out a second presidential debate with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Republican voters disagree with him.
A new Civiqs poll conducted for Daily Kos ballot exhibits {that a} plurality of Republican voters (46%) suppose there needs to be one other debate, whereas 42% suppose there shouldn’t.
However that’s not the one side of the talk the place Trump and his voters don’t fairly see eye to eye.
“Polls clearly present that I gained the Debate in opposition to Comrade Kamala Harris,” he insisted on his Fact Social platform. These polls Trump was touting—like an internet ballot from the far-right outlet Newsmax—aren’t precisely high-quality polls.
However Republicans aren’t as smitten by Trump’s supposed win as he’s. The brand new Civiqs ballot finds that solely 66% stated Trump gained, whereas 12% stated Harris gained. That’s a stark distinction from Democratic voters’ view of the talk: 94% suppose Harris gained, and solely 2% suppose she misplaced. Given how polarized America’s politics are, you wouldn’t anticipate a 28-percentage-point gulf between partisans saying their candidate gained a debate.
In different phrases, Democratic voters felt a lot better about their candidate’s debate efficiency than Republicans did about their candidate.
In fact, Trump has expertise in turning off even his most loyal supporters. A recent Wall Street Journal article discovered that individuals are certainly leaving Trump’s rallies early, as Harris claimed and Trump disputed throughout the debate. And people early exits are doubtless as a consequence of how a lot time he spends rambling incoherently about issues like “the late, nice Hannibal Lecter” and the way bitter he nonetheless is about dropping the 2020 election. The New York Instances discovered that at three latest rallies, his speeches averaged over an hour and a half, with people dipping out the longer he rambled.
“We thought it was our greatest debate ever—it was my finest debate ever, I feel, and it was very fascinating,” Trump said in the media spin room following the Sept. 10 debate.
If that’s the case, perhaps Republicans don’t need one other debate.
