The Trump campaign has deployed the tactic for both debates, even as scientific-based polls show voters believed Pence and Trump lost the debate.
Following the first two debates, the Trump campaign has circulated a collection of unscientific online polls in an effort to inflate results and show President Trump and Vice President Pence “won” their respective debates.... [+]
during the vice presidential debate with US Democratic vice presidential nominee and Senator from California Kamala Harris in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In a strategy that played out similarly after both debates, Trump campaign staffers shared links to online polls from various news outlets asking “who won the debate?,” urging their mostly Trump-supporting follower base to show their support for the president or Pence.
Then, the skewed poll results were shared by allies of the president as proof Trump or Pence “won” the debate: The Trump campaign has deployed the tactic for both debates, even as scientific-based polls show voters believed
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