A new survey shows that just under half of likely voters think Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate on Monday.
A Morning Consult/Politico poll found 49 percent of likely voters thought Clinton won, 26 percent said Donald Trump won, and 25 percent were undecided.
“Perceptions on debate performance mostly broke along partisan lines, but Republicans were more likely to declare Clinton the winner than Democrats were to state victory for her GOP counterpart,” Morning Consult noted about its poll. “About one-fifth of Republicans (18 percent) said Clinton won the debate, compared with just 7 percent of Democrats who thought Trump was the victor. And 12 percent of Trump supporters gave Clinton the nod, whereas just 2 percent of Clinton backers named Trump the winner.”
But the survey respondents indicated the poll’s outcome is unlikely to change many of their minds. Approximately 81 percent of respondents said the debate did not change their minds about who they will vote for in November, while 11 percent of respondents were not sure, and 9 percentage points said it did change their vote.
The Morning Consult/Politico national poll surveyed 1,421 registered voters, including 1,253 likely voters, from Sept. 26-27, and it has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
