Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina won Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, according to a poll released Friday.
The poll from Morning Consult found that 29 percent of registered voters who watched the debate said she was the winner.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump came in second with 24 percent.
Third place went to retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson at 7 percent. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush each polled at 6 percent.
However, Morning Consult found Trump still led the primary race with 36 percent support of registered voters who watched the debate. Carson polled at second with 12 percent and Fiorina took 10 percent. All other candidates polled in single digits.
The poll was conducted among 504 registered voters who watched the debate and plan to voter in their state’s primary or caucus. Sixty-nine percent identified as Republicans. The margin of error was 4.4 points.
Teflon Don!
Amazing, someone who lies, repeatedly, on national television TO the people she wants to vote for her, is perceived as the winner.
Congratulation national media, your ability to ferret out the truth and to inform the public continues unabated.
Trump is handing America the G.O.P. in all its ugliness on a silver platter.
It literally doesn’t get any more obvious than this.
The pundits had decided even before the debate that Fiorina’s big “break out” was going to be the story. And, lo and behold, they say it is.
We have pundits falling all over themselves now to predict that she’ll sweep to the nomination as soon as Trump collapses.
Except that they said exactly the same about Rubio after the last debate.
And Fiorina is a complete joke whose “winning” claims and actual record would not withstand the most basic scrutiny, let alone the rigors of being a perceived front-runner.
Ooh! This general election will be so much fun. Whoever gets the GOP nomination will have Goldwater’s slogan tattooed on his/her forehead:
“Moderation in defense of liberty is no virtue. (Lunatic) extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.”