Trump pollster touts postdebate bump for GOP nominee
The Trump campaign's pollster on Thursday boasted that the former president saw a modest bump in support following this week's debate, even as other polls showed Vice President Harris benefitting from the showdown.
In a memo sent out by the campaign, pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis said they conducted a survey of 1,893 likely voters in seven battleground states Wednesday, one day after former President Trump and Harris debated.
"We found that despite the best efforts of Kamala Harris and media to portray the debate as some kind of overwhelming win for her, voters did not see it this way as support for her remained flat," the pollsters wrote. "The only change we saw was a 2-point bump for President Trump in both ballot configurations."
Fabrizio and Tunis said a predebate survey of 5,600 battleground state voters found Trump and Harris deadlocked at 46 percent support. The postdebate poll showed Trump leading 48 percent to 46 percent.
Trump has repeatedly claimed victory in Tuesday's debate, even as Harris managed to get under his skin and repeatedly baited him with attacks on his rally crowd sizes, his standing among foreign leaders and his family fortune.
Other polls following the debate have been more favorable for Harris.
A Morning Consult poll published Thursday found Harris leading by 5 points after the high-stakes ABC debate, ticking up from the 3- and 4-point leads she held in the same survey before the event in Philadelphia.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published Thursday showed Harris leading Trump by 5 percentage points, up from 4 points in late August.
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