Posted on 10/29/2015 8:55:54 AM PDT by GonzoII
Donald Trump emerged the victor of Wednesday night's third GOP presidential debate, according to flash polls of three websites' users.
Trump overwhelmingly won the contest in Boulder, Colo., according to online surveys from Time, The Drudge Report and CNBC, the network hosting the contest.
Drudge has Trump beating his closest competition during the event by approximately 32 points among its respondents. He earned 54 percent compared to 22 percent for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Drudge's second place Republican contender.
Drudge ranks Rubio third overall with 11 percent, while Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) takes fourth with 4 percent and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson finishes fifth, also around 4 percent.
Time, meanwhile, has Trump besting the rest of the GOP's 2016 presidential field by 26 points among its participants.
He receives 46 percent to 20 percent for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in that sampling of the contest’s results.
Time places Paul third with 8 percent voter support. Cruz is fourth with 7 percent, while Carson takes fifth there as well with 6 percent.
And CNBC has Trump leading rest of the Republican pack by approximately 26 points over second place. He takes 46 percent, compared with 20 percent for Cruz.
Rubio takes CNBC's third place with 15.4 percent, while Carson ranks fourth with 4 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich fifth with 3.5 percent.
Drudge conducted its post-debate sampling with an online survey of 240,063 respondents. Time reported 11,775 votes in its own version of the poll and CNBC did not report its number of respondents. All surveys were among only the sites' users and have unclear margins of error.
Trump repeatedly sparred with CNBC moderator John Harwood during his appearance in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday night.
He also mocked Kasich for having low national polling numbers and took credit for shortening the event's length.
Trump has since boasted that he took first place during the heated clash at the University of Colorado.
"Thanks everyone - they all said I won the debate," he tweeted afterwards Wednesday. "Even won the CNBC poll!"
What debate were you watching?
The debate the rest of us watched was won, convincingly, by Ted Cruz.
Trump is done. It’s over. He never should have mentioned Carson’s name. He screwed up royally. It’s all over for him. Can we move on to immaculating Jethro now please?
Freepers? Maybe. The general consensus though seems to be that Rubio was the big winner.
“The debate the rest of us watched was won, convincingly, by Ted Cruz.”
Sorry Colonel, you need to read the morning snap polls. Agreed, Cruze was awesome, and he did move his own needle, but he’s still in third or fourth place. I’s still like to see him as Trump’s VP if he fails to win the nomination.
I agree!!! Trump won the debate and on to Reno, Nev today for a rally!!!
He won the VP spot.
I thought Sparks??
Yup, by any objective standard, Cruz won convincingly. But there are many Trump supporters who would have said that Trump won the debate regardless of what actually happened. Even if Trump remained silent for the entire debate, many of his supporters would be screaming "TRUMP WINS AGAIN!"
Yup, by any objective standard, Cruz won convincingly. But there are many Trump supporters who would have said that Trump won the debate regardless of what actually happened. Even if Trump remained silent for the entire debate, many of his supporters would be screaming "TRUMP WINS AGAIN!"
Really sad when "Conservatives" look to the Leftist media to tell them what to think.
Not buying it. Trump was more subdued than usual. This debate was all Cruz’s and the Rube’s.
The debate the rest of us watched was won, convincingly, by Ted Cruz.The one everyone else watched, that voted, said it was Trump...But thanks for playing.
Silly. Please stop smoking pot.
Are there too fee Cruz threads this morning? It seems like those would be ideal for celebrating his debate performance.
Please expand on whom you’re talking about.
These polls aren’t based on anything beyond what the voter wants to be true. Often again and again and again.
Only the Republican establishment is calling Rubio a winner. He’s a distant third in on-line polling, social media discussions and even mainstream blog sites, such as National Review.
He did well, but he did best in deflecting Bush’s self-immolation. Not sure how much that helps in the polls.
But I do think Rubio has now locked in his position as the establishment’s guy. Bush broke his contract with the establishment by attacking their (other) guy, instead of, like Kasich, going after Trump, Carson and Cruz.
The interweb loves The Donald.
Does anyone have link for Reno Nevada? Might have already started.
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