Donald Trump overwhelmingly won Monday’s presidential debate, if you ask Donald Trump.
The Republican nominee cited multiple snap polls, or unscientific internet polls that allow anyone around the world with computer acccess to declare a winner.
On September 26, 2016, The Charlotte Observer gathered 21 mostly undecided North Carolina voters to watch the first presidential debate. After it ended, political reporters Tim Funk and David Lightman led a discussion streamed in real time via Fac
It will be a few days before scientific polls begin to trickle out. Scientific polling attempts to recreate the conditions of the actual electorate with a representative sample of voters.
CNN attempted to recreate a scientific poll in the immediate aftermath of the debate and declared Hillary Clinton the winner by a 62 to 27 percent margin.
The sample of 521 registered voters skewed heavily Democratic, 41 percent described themselves as Democrats, 26 percent described themselves as Republicans, and 33 percent described themselves as independents or members of another party.
Trump trashed CNN’s poll on Twitter.
Pundits generally declared Clinton the winner of Monday’s debate. Trump surrogate and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Trump should drop out of the next two debates because of moderator bias.
"If I were Donald Trump I wouldn’t participate in another debate unless I was promised that the journalist would act like a journalist and not an incorrect, ignorant fact checker," Giuliani said.
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