Opinion Weekend
June 29-30, 2024
Who Won The First Biden-Trump Presidential Debate? Aaron Bycoffe, Amina Brown & Nathaniel Rakich, 538 President Joe Biden turned in a dismal performance at the first presidential general-election debate on Thursday night. That was certainly the opinion of many pundits reacting in real time, but thanks to a new 538/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel, we now know it’s how American voters felt as well.
Biden lost the debate, but Trump didn't win Ipsos A majority of likely voters who watched the first 2024 Presidential debate felt that Republican candidate Donald Trump performed the best, according to a two-wave 538/Ipsos poll of likely voters conducted in the days leading up to and immediately after the debate.
Did the Presidential debate change anybody's mind? Clifford Young & Bernard Mendez, Ipsos Perhaps the biggest question coming out of the Presidential debate was whether the media frenzy following President Joe Biden’s stumbling debate performance might lead him to drop out of the race. What about the voters? How do Americans actually feel about what transpired?
Snap post-debate poll: 30% of Democrats say 'someone else' would be a stronger candidate than Biden David Montgomery, YouGov Three in 10 Democrats say the party should nominate someone other than Joe Biden to have the best chance of winning in November, in the wake of a widely panned performance in Thursday night's debate with Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump. The finding comes from snap polls conducted by YouGov on Thursday and Friday, after the conclusion of the debate.
Post-Debate Poll Data for Progress Thursday night was the first presidential election debate of 2024 between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. A new Data for Progress flash poll fielded the following day finds that voters believe Biden performed worse than Trump during the debate. However, there is no clear indication that alternative Democrats would perform better than Biden in a head-to-head matchup against Trump.
