If the Twitter audience gets a vote, then Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard won the CNN-New York Times Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night.
According to a new analysis, she was the most buzzed about candidate of the 12 on stage, easily outpacing No. 2, Vice President Joe Biden.
What’s more, the report from SEMrush, a trends data provider, shared with Secrets, found that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ recent heart attack and the line from Sen. Kamala Harris about President Trump, “Dude gotta go,” were also heavily tweeted.
Some details from the report:
- Gabbard was the most tweeted about candidate during the debate, with 68% more tweets than those about Biden, who was the second most buzzworthy on Twitter.
- The least tweeted about candidate was Julián Castro, whose total tweets added up to only 11% of Gabbard’s.
- Twitter sentiment for the following candidates was positive more than 50% of the time: Sanders, Castro, Buttigieg, Yang, Warren, and Klobuchar.
- 29% of tweets about Biden were negative, and 20% about Warren were negative.
- Searches for Warren have surged in recent months. She is the most searched candidate in October and was the second-most searched in September after Yang. Since April 2019, searches for Warren have grown 313%.
- Searches for Buttigieg have gone down by 83% since April.
The buzziest searches:
- Supreme Court
- Ellen Degeneres
- Mr. Trump
- Trump Twitter
- “I’m the only one on this stage who … “
- “Dude gotta go”
- Blue Democratic Wall
- Tom Steyer billionaire
- Andrew Yang math pin
- Warren vs. Biden
- Bernie Sanders heart attack
- Cory Booker vegan
- Friendship Joe Biden
- Andrew Yang Bing
