Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy topped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the best-performing candidate in Wednesday’s Republican debate, according to a poll commissioned exclusively for The Post.
A post-debate poll of 1,800 people by Leger found that 23% of self-identified GOP voters said Ramaswamy won the debate and 21% said DeSantis emerged victorious.
Former Vice President Mike Pence was a distant third, with 11% saying he gave the best performance.
“I think it’s interesting in the sense that you have one of the early frontrunners, DeSantis, doing quite well, but you’ve also got a little bit of an uptick in playing a little bit of the outsider card,” Leger Executive Vice President Andrew Enns told The Post on Thursday afternoon.
A New York Post-Leger poll found 23% of Republicans said Ramaswamy won Wednesday’s debate. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
The shadow of former President Donald Trump, however, looms large.
Of Republicans polled, 61% want to see the 77-year-old as the GOP nominee, nearly seven times the support of the next highest polling competitor, DeSantis (9%).
“No one is going to win this thing with Trump still a viable candidate,” Enns said.
However, with Ramaswamy generating buzz and garnering positive debate reviews, Enns suggested that the 38-year-old “Woke, Inc” author could “start to chip away at votes in some of those primaries, and create real problems for some of those who want to get in.” to the early stage later.”
Enns noted that experienced candidates like Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — who are polling in the single digits nationally and hope to make ground for Trump and DeSantis Wednesday night — may have the most to lose in the debate.
“I think they might reflect and say, ‘OK, we’re not changing our lot here.’ And I think it will put a lot of pressure on them,” he said.
DeSantis and Ramaswamy are expected to perform again on stage on September 27 in California.REUTERS
Only 7% of GOP voters chose Haley as the winner of the Milwaukee debate, 6% chose Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), 4% chose Christie, 4% thought former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson did the best and 1% declared North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum the winner .
Fourteen percent of Republicans polled said “no one” was winning the debate.
Haley, who slammed Ramaswamy on his foreign policy and argued for an area of ”consensus” on the issue of abortion instead of imposing a federal ban, did best in the minds of Democrats watching the debate, with 19% of Democrats saying she won the debate.
The poll showed that 21% thought DeSantis performed best on the debate stage.REUTERS
Scott and Burgum did the worst, according to Democrats polled, with just 1% picking them as winners.
Twenty-five percent of Democrats say “nobody” is winning the debate.
Overall, 29% of those surveyed watched at least part of the debate live, and 36% of Republicans watched at least part of the debate, which drew 12.8 million viewers to Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network combined — more than the forum The last GOP was held without Trump.
The poll also found that 11% said Mike Pence won the debate and 7% said Nikki Haley won. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
A majority of GOP voters polled, 63%, agreed with the 45th president’s decision to skip the debate. Even 36% of President Biden’s supporters agree with the decision.
If Trump becomes the Republican nominee in 2024, polls show he will defeat Biden, 80, on Election Day.
In a head-to-head matchup, Trump received 44% support compared to Biden’s 41%, with 15% wanting to vote for someone else.
The Republican National Committee will hold its second presidential primary debate on September 27 in Simi Valley, California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.
In the five weeks leading up to the debate, Enns said, the candidates will “really need to hone their message,” especially those who are perceived as poor performers.
“I think they’re going to look at this and say, ‘OK, you know, the primary is coming up fast. We have to figure out how we’re going to stay in this,’ ” he said.
The Leger poll, which is weighted by age, gender, region, education, ethnicity, number of people in the household and past voting, has a margin of error of 2.3 percentage points.
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