Who Won the Debate? Harris and Trump Both Claim Victory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Going into the debate, 50 percent of those same respondents thought Harris would win, while the other half predicted a victory for Trump.
31% : He cited a far-right Newsmax snap poll conducted after the debate that declared Trump the winner over Harris by 93 percent to 6 percent.
29% : "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats," Trump said at one point, "they're eating the pets of the people that live there.""Oh come on," Harris appeared to say as her mic was muted, visibly outraged.ABC News debate moderator David Muir corrected Trump, saying the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, said there were no "credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.
25% : On Tuesday, it was Trump who lost, Wallace said.
22% : Fox News' Brit Hume said, "Look, make no mistake about it, Trump had a bad night.
22% : Whether rattled by Harris' unexpected handshake that she offered as she strolled onto the stage or simply unprepared, Trump was incoherent and visibly unhinged at times during the course of the 90-minute debate, espousing bizarre, unfounded conspiracy theories about immigrants in Ohio stealing and eating domesticated pets (kittens, dogs and ducks).
21% : Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a golf buddy and close ally of Trump, said the performance by the leader of his party on Tuesday night was a "disaster."
18% : "Trump former ally and debate tutor Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, praised Harris' performance and said Trump "spent more time talking about people eating pets, people at his rallies and whether he had more or less, than he did about the economy and that is a huge fail tonight."
18% : "On substance I think she pitched a shutout, and I think she did on style as well," said Wallace, who moderated a 2016 debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
13% : Jon Ralston, a veteran political campaign reporter and commentator in Las Vegas, declared "Harris crushed Trump" but said he had no idea how her debate victory will affect the outcome of the election.
7% : "CNN host Chris Wallace said Tuesday's debate was "just as devastating" for Trump as the one between the former president and Joe Biden in June, when Trump won and Biden was forced to bail out of his race for re-election.

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