How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls.
CNN poll showed Harris winning the debate 63 percent to 37 percent.YouGov poll showed her winning 54-31.
Vice President Kamala Harris turned in one of the more resounding debate performances in recent decades on Tuesday night — to the point where Donald Trump’s allies have struggled to locate a silver lining.
Precisely how much the debate could impact the race is an open question, as my colleague Dan Balz notes; we’re a very polarized country, and we don’t generally see big and sudden shifts in polls anymore. But small margins can matter greatly in our increasingly tight elections, and Harris clearly helped her cause.
So just how emphatic was her win? And what do the polls suggest about what it could mean moving forward?
We’ve so far seen two instant polls — one from CNN and another from YouGov.
The CNN poll showed Harris winning the debate 63 percent to 37 percent among debate-watchers, while the YouGov poll showed her winning 54-31 among registered voters who watched at least some of the debate, with 14 percent unsure. (Trump has cited his own improbably wide margins in some unscientific online polls — posting a series of them on Truth Social — but those polls don’t reflect the actual electorate.)
