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Over 500,000 Votes Are In- Here’s Who They Say Dominated The Debate (And Who Easily Took 2nd)
Donald Trump won Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate, according to a majority of the participants in a Drudge Report poll.
With more than 500,000 votes cast, 54 percent of the Drudge Report readers who participated in the poll said Trump was the winner of the three-hour contest.
Carly Fiorina was the only other candidate to poll in double digits, coming in second to Trump at 20 percent.
“It’s still Donald Trump’s party,” wrote analyst Andre Tartar. “The current front-runner once again dominated the debate proceedings.”
The Drudge Report poll showed the rest of the field as follows:
6 percent: Sens. Ted Cruz, R-TX, and Marco Rubio, R-FL.
4 percent: Dr. Ben Carson and Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY.
1 percent: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
The poll was not scientific. Participants could vote more than once.
Trump’s allure is not traditional, admits Scott Morefield, who supports the billionaire.
“From a purely ideological standpoint I like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul better. They are fantastic candidates and they seem like good, genuine people. Maybe they’d do great,” Morefield wrote on The Blaze. “Problem is, they can’t win. At least not in today’s America.”
“This year we’ve got to do something different to have a chance,” he wrote. “Thankfully, ‘different has presented itself in the form of a bombastic, iconic, billionaire from Queens known for brilliant business moves and firing people on live television.”
Moreland summed up the Trump appeal in one final sentence.
“What American voter, after all, doesn’t want to just up and fire the entire Washington elite?” he wrote.
h/t: Drudge Report
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/over-500000-votes-are-in-heres-who-they-say-dominated-the-debate-and-who-easily-took-2nd/
