When legions of DC insiders concluded that Hillary Clinton won the Democratic debate on Tuesday, I was instinctually more skeptical.
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Fifty-seven percent of respondents to the poll they had watched the debate.
If you really want to know who won last night’s debate, wait for the next batch of polls. Sanders came in second, with 24% saying he emerged victorious. Two voters apiece picked former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Sen.
The former first lady used the Democratic debate to sharply focus her message to women.
The Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll, conducted immediately after the debate Wednesday and Thursday, presents the first concrete evidence that Clinton’s strong debate performance is translating to momentum. Asked which of the potential candidates they trusted the most, 33% chose Sanders, 23% Biden and 22% Clinton. No other candidate broke 3%.
“In addition to the NRA, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians…probably the Republicans”, Clinton said to loud cheers and applause at the Tuesday night debate.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, speaks as Sen. With the exception of a brief blip when Clinton spiked, around 9:48 p.m., when she talked about her emails, Sanders was the most-searched candidate of the night. The Washington Post asserted that Clinton “solidified her status as the Democratic frontrunner”.
“You don’t have the same kind of draw with the Democratic debates as you did with the Republican ones”, he said. He earned the support of just 11% of voters, compared to Clinton’s 37% and Sanders’ 35%.
Even so, questions of trust continues to dog Clinton. Only 16 percent said Sanders has the best chance and 14 percent said the same about Biden. “Cause that’s what he is”, Trump said, in apparent disregard to Sanders” platform and just one day after he put out a brief anti-Sanders ad about ISIS on his Instagram account.
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He wasn’t flawless. Clinton successfully ambushed Sanders early in the debate, and he lapsed into the language of a Beltway insider as he tried to defend his mixed record on guns.
