Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy narrowly edged out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the top-performing candidate in Wednesday’s Republican debate, according to a poll commissioned exclusively for The Post.
Leger’s post-debate poll of 1,800 people found that 23% of self-identified Republican voters said Ramaswamy won the debate and 21% said DeSantis emerged victorious.
Former Vice President Mike Pence came in a distant third, with 11% saying he performed the best.
“I think it’s interesting in the sense that one of the early favorites, DeSantis, did reasonably well, but there’s also a bit of an upstart playing the outsider card a little bit,” said Leger, executive vice president. Chairman Andrew Enns told The Post on Thursday night.
A New York Post-Leger poll found that 23% of Republicans said Ramaswamy won Wednesday’s debate. Matt Baron/EIB/Shutterstock
However, the shadow of former President Donald Trump looms.
Of the Republicans polled, 61% want to see the 77-year-old as the Republican nominee, nearly seven times the support given to the next highest contender in the polls, DeSantis (9%).
“No one is going to win this if Trump remains a viable candidate,” Enns said.
However, with Ramaswamy generating buzz and rave reviews in the debates, Enns suggested that the 38-year-old “Woke, Inc” author might “start encroaching on the ballot in some of those early primaries and create real problems for some.” of those elections. who want to enter the later primaries.”
Enns noted that seasoned candidates like Pence, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who are polling in the single digits nationally and hoping to regain some ground against Trump and DeSantis on Wednesday night, they were perhaps the biggest losers of the debate.
“I think they’re probably reflecting and saying, ‘Okay, we don’t change our luck here.’ And I think that is going to put a lot of pressure on them,” she said.
DeSantis and Ramaswamy are expected to face each other again on stage on September 27 in California.REUTERS
Only 7% of Republican voters chose Haley as the winner of the Milwaukee debate, 6% chose Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), 4% selected Christie, 4% thought former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson did better and 1% declared North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum the winner.
Fourteen percent of the Republicans surveyed said that “no one” was the winner of the debate.
Haley, who has harshly criticized Ramaswamy for his foreign policy skills and advocated finding areas of “consensus” on abortion-related issues rather than imposing a federal ban, fared better in the minds of Democrats watching the debate: 19% of Democrats said she won. the debate.
The poll shows that 21% believe DeSantis performed better on the debate stage.REUTERS
Scott and Burgum fared the worst, according to the Democrats surveyed, with only 1% choosing them as winners.
Twenty-five percent of Democrats said that “nobody” was the winner of the debate.
Overall, 29% of those polled watched at least part of the debate live, and 36% of Republicans watched at least part of the debate, which drew 12.8 million viewers on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network combined. , more than the last republican forum. celebrated without Trump.
The poll also found that 11% said Mike Pence won the debate and 7% said Nikki Haley did.Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
The majority of Republican voters surveyed, 63%, agreed with the 45th president’s decision not to participate in the debate. Even 36% of President Biden’s supporters agreed with the decision.
If Trump were the Republican nominee in 2024, the poll shows he would defeat the 80-year-old Biden on Election Day.
In a head-to-head matchup, Trump received 44% support compared to Biden’s 41%, with 15% wanting to vote for someone else.
The Republican National Committee will hold its second presidential primary debate on September 27 in Simi Valley, California, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.
Enns said that in the five weeks leading up to that debate, the candidates “will really need to hone their messaging,” especially those deemed to have underperformed.
“I think they’ll look at this and say, ‘Okay, you know, the primary is fast approaching. We have to figure out how we’re going to stay in this,’” she said.
The Leger poll, weighted by age, gender, region, education, ethnicity, number of people in the household and previous vote, had a margin of error of 2.3 percentage points.
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