Donald Trump's "weak" debate leaves key question -- Analyst

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The results were compiled from three national surveys reviewed by the pollster, which also found that Trump was the favored winner by only 34 percent of viewers on average.
60% : As of Wednesday, Harris was leading Trump by 2.7 percentage points (47 percent to 44.3 percent) on average across national polling, per FiveThirtyEight's aggregate.
37% : The New York Times national polling average shows Harris with a smaller lead, beating Trump 49 percent to 47 percent.
35% : The Democratic vice president successfully baited Trump to lash out early in the night, pushing him to veer off-course during his answers and repeat several familiar false lines of attacks regarding Democrats' handling of abortion or the results of the 2020 presidential election.
35% : ""If Trump didn't tank his presidential run tonight, it will prove that debates don't matter much," Voss wrote.
30% : "In a race as polarized as this one, even a perceived loss for Trump might not move the needle significantly, as many voters have already made up their minds.
29% : D. Stephen Voss, political science professor at the University of Kentucky, told Newsweek that Harris "didn't need to poke Trump much" to get a rise out of him on stage, writing via email, "Trump's performance was weak from start to finish.
12% : ""He landed few blows against Harris, and the longer the debate proceeded, the more blows Trump landed against himself," Voss added.

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