Column | For Kamala Harris, winning the debate was the easy part

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Harris bested Trump in presentation during the debate, knocking the former president back on his heels and conveying a better handle of the moment.
53% : Now they are considering her as a candidate running against Trump and it is beneficial to her campaign.
49% : Most Americans now say she is better at staying calm under pressure; only about a quarter of Americans say that Trump is.
43% : Polling shows that Harris impressed people with her debate performance -- but the improvement was largely on non-policy perceptions.
41% : End of carouselData released by the polling firm YouGov on Tuesday drills down into the ways in which Trump came up on the short end of the stick.
40% : Trump had a wide advantage on charisma a few weeks ago; that is now gone.
35% : Polling since last week's encounter has reinforced that -- excluding the opt-in social media surveys that Trump eagerly shared in the aftermath of his defeat.
35% : Their polls showed Trump with small leads over President Joe Biden in the weeks before he dropped out of the race.
33% : Going into the debate, for example, an equal number of Americans told YouGov that they thought Trump was a better debater as told the pollster that they thought Harris was.
26% : Unless you're Trump and you're interested in presenting it as a knockout punch you delivered.
17% : It's that, on a range of measures, Trump is viewed worse now than he was before the debate.

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