By EFE
02 Oct 2024, 07:45 AM EDT
Washington – The Republican candidate for US vice president, JD Vance, surpassed the Democrat, Tim Walz, by two percentage points (51% to 49%) in Tuesday’s televised debate, who, however, remains the which has the best image of the two, according to a quick survey by the CNN television channel.
The survey, conducted among almost half a thousand viewers before and after the debate ahead of the presidential elections on November 5, also showed that both candidates came out with a better image than they had, the television outlet said.
Before the debate, 54% believed that Walz, governor of Minnesota, would do better and 45% thought that Senator Vance would do better, but after watching them debate on a variety of issues, 51% thought that the The winner was the Republican and 49% considered, on the contrary, that it was the Democrat.
In the case of Walz, number two of the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, after the debate 59% of the viewers surveyed said that they had a favorable opinion of him and 22% that they saw him unfavorably, while before facing the cameras those percentages were 46% and 32%, respectively.
As for Vance, who is former President Donald Trump’s running mate, with his performance in the debate he managed to reduce unfavorable opinions from 52% to 44% and increase favorable ones from 30% to 41%.
CNN indicated that 65% of debate viewers now say Walz is qualified to serve as president if necessary and 58% say the same of Vance, up from 62% and 50%, respectively, before the debate. .
The sharply divided opinions on the outcome of Tuesday’s debate stand in stark contrast to the more decisive audience reaction following this year’s biggest debates.
Last June, two-thirds of debate viewers thought that former President Donald Trump outperformed President Joe Biden, who was then a candidate for re-election, while in September a majority of 63% who tuned in to the debate between Trump and Kamala Harris said that the vice president did a better job.
Debate viewers in the survey were 3 percentage points more likely to be aligned with Democrats than Republicans, resulting in an audience that was about 5 points more Democratic than all registered voters nationally.
The survey was carried out by text message to 547 people registered to vote in the next elections and who said they had watched the debate and has an error percentage of plus/minus 5.3 points.
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