'Trump belly-flopped': Researcher shocked at how badly the debate hurt the president

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October 16, 2020
By Sarah Toce

President Donald J. Trump cancelled his second debate against political challenger Joe Biden and opted for a town hall forum instead – and now, researchers are starting to understand why. Voter expectation ratings of Trump’s first presidential debate against Biden dropped by 18 percentage points – to 33 – while Biden’s remained closer to expectations at 46 percentage points. The debate literally caused pollsters to confirm that not only did Trump fail… he “belly-flopped.”

“Few presidential debates make that much difference. This one apparently did,” said Bob Shrum, director of the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. “In the eyes of voters, Donald Trump belly-flopped into an empty swimming pool. The first, and perhaps only, 2020 debate may in the end do more to shape the ultimate outcome of the race than any debate since the first Kennedy-Nixon face off in 1960.”

New data from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science’s Daybreak Poll reveals that in the days following the first debate, Trump’s voter ratings dropped in the areas of mental and physical fitness as well. Biden’s, on the other hand, went up.

According to research data in the poll, panelists were asked before the Sept. 29 debate to rate their expectations for Trump’s and Biden’s performances on a scale of 0 to 100. “Pre-debate expectations were nearly identical: 51 for Trump and 50 for Biden. Post-debate performance ratings show that neither candidate met the relatively low expectations of voters overall, but Trump significantly underperformed,” researchers found.



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[ProfessorGAC]

1. This Poll Feels Like...

...a research topic without a purpose.
Among independents, the both went down after the debate. What exactly were the questions, after the debate?
Joe went down after the debate among democrats? Really?
What was the boundary of the expectation scale. 0-100 tells us nothing. And with no descriptor for zero or 100, every respondent could have a different scale.
I could go on, but won't.
This poll tells us nothing.

[Maraya1969]

2. Look at those delusional Republicans pre-debate Trump. The highest vote tally of all! 75!

What a bunch of dorks.....................

[Sneederbunk]

3. More Trump, more rope.

[Mc Mike]

4. He's so media savvy, A great impresario show man.