[dforest]

What win? Because FOX said so? Hilarious.

[McGavin999]

Yes it will change the race, he’s down in the polls more than before.

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

Better question is IF he gets any wins (probably not).

[AndyJackson]

I thought Ramaswamy won. I guess I missed the morning talking points.

[Drew68]

Mark Levin sums up why he believes DeSantis won the debate.

It's an excellent snippet and describes perfectly why I will continue to support Ron DeSantis until he is officially out of the race, polls be damned.

"In my humble opinion, why did Ron DeSantis win that debate?" (Twitter)

[Observator]

As such, I thought going in that everyone would be taking shots at him. They didn’t, which means they either purposefully didn’t want him to be able to rebut anything, or they simply couldn’t think of anything of substance with which to attack.

The author didn't consider a third (and more probable) possibility - that the other candidates aren't worried about him and ignored him. DeSantos is on a steady downward trajectory - why mess with that momentum?

[central_va]

No.

Covfefe.

[Mr. K]

DeSantis lost.

[catnipman]

good gosh, this whole who “won” the Lilliputian debate absent Gulliver is just so much poppycock for the pundit grist mills ...

the ONLY thing that matters post-debate is whether aggregate poll numbers move and by how much, if any ... all the rest is pretty much akin to debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin ...

[Sirius Lee]

FOX viewers:

"The gas. The gas makes it so pretty...."

[Alberta's Child]

This guy ought to work on rebuilding his credibility and get off this RDS wagon. Republican lawyers in national politics are insufferable losers … which explains why DeSantis’ campaign has been going nowhere.

[Jeff Chandler]

No.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

What win?

Smells like bull$hit.

[MNDude]

The propaganda never ends.

I equally loathe all candidates on that stage, but all comments seem to strongly imply that most that watched it feel that one Indian guy won the debate.

[PJ-Comix]

Looking at the other candidates before barely raising his hand to support Trump if he is convicted is a “win?”

[faithhopecharity]

when will that first win arrive?

so far, it is not in sight for him

[Dartoid]

Dave Rubin had a good after debate discussion with Jordan Peterson, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Malice.

https://www.youtube.com/live/FS6SP_GrZQw?si=OeoGpo8iKTpnbGLO

[V K Lee]

As a matter of opinion, heard that DS did not necessarily win
the debate. He just was declared a winner by his supporters.
It’s STILL OPEN SEASON and this bet is ON MAJA/MAGA!

[LS]

No. DeSoros not only lost, but Baris’s polling today shows DeSoros loses to Rutabaga in FLORIDA.

The real question now is if he drops out by Dec. (my prediction, looking increasingly accurate), and does he, as President Trump Truthed today, run for the senate vs. Scott (continued suicide, as he would lose).

This shows, I think, that DeSoros is increasingly desperate, knowing that failure to get a NEW elective office now means his career is done.

[Robert DeLong]

Trump influencers on Twitter (now X, but I can barely stand to call it that), loudly proclaimed that the interview got 1,000 gazillion views or something. Except, the interview likely garnered fewer actual watchers - people who were engaged for more than a minute or two on a social media feed - than the GOP primary debate on Fox News, which actually vastly exceeded ratings expectations. I know they want to convince us that scrolling past something on one’s Twitter feed and having it play for two seconds is the same as tuning in to watch a televised event, but it’s not even remotely close. And one can hardly pin the success of the video on Trump’s popularity when much of the viewership occurred because Elon Musk shared it and posted about it several times.

Well, let's say that 1% watched, that's more than 2 million. If 10% watched, that is 20 million +, and so on and so on.

It still beats what they got that beat their own expectations. The vast majority, if not all, of Trump supporters, never watched the debate on Fox.

Thus the answer is, if anything DeSantis lost ground, & the WP/Ipsonotfacto poll is nothing more than a push poll, because they would rather face DeSantis than Trump. So you take hat as a win, Scott Morefield, because fantasy is all you are hanging that win on.