Like many different information companies, Reuters determined to have a spotlight group of undecided voters who may react to the talk.
If Reuters hoped to prop up Kamala Harris, then issues didn’t go as deliberate. The vast majority of the group swung to Trump after the talk.
Predictably, the media rushed to declare Kamala the winner, however voters noticed one thing else.
From Reuters:
Some undecided voters not satisfied by Harris after debate with Trump
Kamala Harris was extensively seen as dominating Tuesday’s presidential debate in opposition to Republican former president Donald Trump, however a bunch of undecided voters remained unconvinced that the Democratic vice chairman was the higher candidate.
Reuters interviewed 10 individuals who have been nonetheless uncertain how they have been going to vote within the Nov. 5 election earlier than they watched the talk. Six mentioned afterward they’d now both vote for Trump or have been leaning towards backing him. Three mentioned they’d now again Harris and one was nonetheless uncertain how he would vote.
Harris and Trump are in a decent race and the election will possible be determined by simply tens of hundreds of votes in a handful of battleground states, lots of whom are swing voters just like the undecided voters who spoke to Reuters.
Though the pattern dimension was small, the responses prompt Harris may want to offer extra detailed coverage proposals to win over voters who’ve but to make up their minds.
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air has a principle about what occurred right here:
Harris got here into it as a cipher, and that’s the way in which she left it as effectively, thanks largely to the efforts by ABCs moderators. They not often pressed her for specifics on insurance policies, and solely calmly challenged her wide-ranging flip-flops over the past eight weeks or so. Solely a few days after lastly producing an points web page and practically two months of refusing to speak to reporters (apart from 26 minutes on CNN), undecided voters needed some “meat on the bones,” as one focus-group member advised Reuters.
And so they didn’t get it. Harris could have succeeded in zinging Trump, however a minimum of on this group, her technique to skate on points and simply disqualify Trump did not land.
That’s fairly sound evaluation.
Whereas left-wing pundits declare Kamala the winner (as a result of she stopped herself from issuing her standard phrase salads and cringe laughter), a Reuters focus group discovered that she truly misplaced:
Undecided voters at the moment are leaning towards Trump 2 to 1 after final night time’s debate. pic.twitter.com/LIaxv5hnsb
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) September 11, 2024
The liberal media was too busy high-fiving one another to note.
