Donald Trump Won Last Night's Presidential Debate, According to Unscientific Snap Online Polls staff@people.com by Stephanie Petit
September 27, 2016
A slew of unscientific online snap polls are painting Donald Trump as the winner of the first presidential debate Monday night.
A Time.com poll has the Republican nominee leading Hillary Clinton by four percentage points 52 percent to 48 percent after more than 1,300,000 votes were cast.
Time cautions that its survey, like other such polls, is not statistically representative of likely voters, and are not predictive of the debate outcome will effect the election.
Instead, these surveys measure which nominee has the most energized online supporters.
Trump took to Twitter to show more dominant leads from polls by conservative news site Breitbart, CNBC and others.
His biggest lead comes from the results of a Drudge Report survey, where the business mogul garnered 80 percent of the votes. Drudge Report is a popular conservative-leaning news aggregator.