Opinion: The surprise winner of the debate | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And in the early 1990s, Pat Buchanan exposed the deep split between the Reaganites and a paleoconservative movement that was opposed to immigration, free trade and even, at times, democracy.
48% : Her answer on the tough issue of abortion acknowledged the difficult political realities of the issue and wove in personal touches like her own journey to have her children.
45% : On abortion, an issue that's very important to millennials and Gen Z voters, she defended her pro-life personal position but also admitted what many Republicans won't -- that the math simply isn't there to ban the procedure on a federal level.
43% : There were good faith policy disagreements on serious issues including the economy, crime, government spending and Ukraine.
41% : Former Vice President Mike Pence declared that, when President Joe Biden took over office, "he threw open the southern border of the United States."
38% : And all the dangerous talk about the "invasion" at our southern border not only feeds the fear that helps inspire hateful acts like the El Paso massacre, but it obscures the fact that claiming asylum in the US is a legal humanitarian right.
36% : He was slow, unenergetic and stumbled with his misguided attacks on the so-called two-tiered judicial system and his rambling answer on abortion.
31% :Calling abortion a personal decision and declining to push for a punitive federal abortion ban, Haley suggested Americans focus on finding consensus on areas of broad agreement, such as banning late-term abortions.
30% : On issue after issue -- abortion, Ukraine, the events of January 6, 2021, Trump's four indictments -- the eight debaters reflected deep splits in the party.
30% : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to send troops to the southern border to use force and leave drug pushers "stone cold dead" -- an apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings.

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