Six in 10 debate watchers say Joe Biden won tonight in CNN's post-debate poll Debates2020
View 2020 presidential election pollingIn interviews with the same voters conducted before the debate, 56% said they expected Biden to do the better job while 43% expected that Trump would.The post-debate result is about the same as the outcome of a post-debate poll in 2016 after the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton. In that poll, 62% thought Clinton won the debate, 27% said Trump did.
Beyond overall praise for his performance, voters who watched the debate largely said that they trusted the former vice president over the current President on major issues covered in the debate, including racial inequality , health care , the coronavirus outbreak and Supreme Court nominations . On the economy, though, voters who watched the debate split, with 50% saying they preferred Biden and 48% Trump.
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