Opinion | Winners and Losers of the First Republican Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And her answer on abortion proved that she is just as interested in winning the general election as the primary.
54% : (Where exactly you place that dividing line is up to you, but I enjoyed his Reaganite desire to abolish a variety of federal agencies, including the Department of Education, while I found his zeal to close and militarize the southern border deeply troubling.)
53% : Her realism on Senate vote counts for abortion bans at the national level, federal spending and other matters of actual governance made her the surprise grown-up in a room full of ostensibly grown men.
44% : He smartly made China not just a foreign-policy issue but a jobs issue, which along with his talk of completing the border wall gives him an opening with populist voters.
32% : He played it safe on abortion, Ukraine and Donald Trump.

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