How Trump, Harris’ debate performance could impact poll numbers

ABC News’ Washington Bureau Chief and Political Director takes a closer look at the key issues and latest poll numbers after Tuesday night’s presidential debate.

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[faithkischel]

ABC should be ashamed of themselves after last night

[evazumokennedy]

Terrible moderators! I will never watch ABC News again!

[anonymousanon]

I had no idea ABC was running for President!!! They debated Trump more than Kamala... f'n clowns 🤣🤦‍♂️

[Thebald]

Fact check Abc news.. The Governor of Virginia was on a podcast talking about abortion during the third trimester and also after birth.. Tou should do your research before you try to fact check someone

[allysonbittner]

Omg 😱 abortion rights I'm a woman and that is not the main subject that should be going on right now in this country!

[jre]

ABC news was so unbelievably biased it was insane. Trump debated 3 people last night and regardless of where you fall politically it was a shame. He wasn’t the most eloquent or precise but he did well given the circumstances.

[bcro]

CNN did a better of a job than you guys

[iand]

Sorry but abortion was ranked 4th on the top issues independent voters are concerned about. So not really a big win the economy was 1st the border was second, foreign policy was 3rd.

[Berukaisan]

Economy and border is much more important for voters. Especially economy. And they are tied with eachother. Bad economy increases hatred against illegal imigration. And inflation is the most eye catching economic problem. Abortion and wars are problems yes. However they are not as big as economic problems. Most people dont care about abortion when they buy their food with more and more money each year. And people dont care about foreign wars. Trump has the majority support for fixing economy, border and wars. Kamala only has advantage on abortion. Trump will win this election. When he wins PA we can stop watching the rest.

[therealworkhorse]

I thought yall said before the debate she was winning now she was losing now she is winning figure it out an stop the bullshit

[lottorabbit]

Moderators did a terrible job. That’s why people are moving away from these big news media conglomerates and getting their information from reliable podcasts who are unbiased. I would rather watch a Theo Von podcast.

[srtghost]

Like Trump stated during the debate Harris can do nothing about abortion, it’s left up to voters at the State level. She keeps saying she will sign an abortion bill into law when passed by Congress knowing that no abortion bill will pass through Congress.

[RayBeece]

Both candidates are sub-par but what ABC NEWS did was ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL and BIASED. I wanted to see a impartial and unbiased debate moderated by professionals. That did NOT happen whatsoever.

[bazzaacarsinop]

When Vice President Harris said, "16 economists say former President Trump's plan..." it reminded me of her previous statement about "51 Intelligence officers say the laptop is Russian". I find her hard hard to believe!

[Belle]

Yes Trump kept going to the most important issues. This made me more sure that I have to vote for Trump ! The whole thing was sickening the moderators could have straight told us to vote for Kamala . Trump 2024

[kathyg]

When Trump was speaking, I couldn’t tell if she had really bad acting or if she really is stupid from the faces she made. She acted like a child not someone who is running for president.

[watching-the-watchers]

How many more subscribers will unsubscribe after the 3 against 1 anti-Trump tactics ABC used in that debate?

[MyExperiancedOpinion]

@RayBeecet what ABC NEWS did was ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL and BIASED.

[MarkLandrebe-efyd]

Abortion does not make or break our country; so get off of it !!

[rukiddingmeNJ]

It looked like Trump had to debate 3 people. You can do better than that ABC. 👎🏿