The debate had no impact on the level of support for Biden and Trump

The first televised debate between U.S. presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump had almost no impact on the level of voter support.

This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to a poll conducted by Ipsos and the 538 website.

According to the survey, despite the fact that 60% of respondents believe that Trump performed better than the incumbent president in the debate, while Biden received the support of only 21%, this did not change their support by voters.

Thus, after the debate, 46.7% of potential voters declared their intention to vote for Biden in the upcoming elections, which is only 1.6 percentage points lower than before the debate.

At the same time, support for Trump remained virtually unchanged. After the debate, the number of potential Trump voters increased from 43.5% to 43.9%. This is likely due to the fact that Americans were not impressed with Trump's performance at the debate.

The poll was conducted before and after the debate. The poll has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points. 1700 out of 2543 respondents watched the debate in full or in part. The margin of error in the survey of those who watched the debate is 2.5 percentage points.

Author - Serhii Kolomiets, 30/06/2024