REAL WINNER: KAMALA'S DEBATE SURGE! - September 12th, 2024
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show, Lemon Live at 5, where the subscriber... their voices get to be heard on this show. We'll read some of your comments and your questions. So here we go. What are we, two days out from the debate or two nights out?
Did Kamala Harris clearly win the debate and what immediate poll bumps followed?
Kamala Harris won. The Vice President Kamala Harris won that debate the other night. That's not my opinion. That is now clear. It is clear objective reality. She won on style. She won on substance. Well, she looked better. She wasn't orange. And now she's being rewarded with a significant bump in the polls. Not in one poll. Not in one snap survey, but in all of the legitimate polls that we have seen. We'll see if that holds, and we're going to find out what's behind it. We have perfect guess for that. But is it a temporary bump? That's what I want to know. Could it carry her all the way to November? That's what we're going to talk about. Also, we have some breaking news to discuss. Just moments ago, the former President Donald Trump announcing that he will not debate Vice President Kamala Harris again.
Even he knows that he was obviously trounced the other night. Let's discuss now. All-star panel. I love these guys so much. Joshua Doss is a senior pollster at Hit Strategies. He's a, and he directs the organization's economics and black voter department. And for the first time on this show, I've been on her show. I've had it with Jennifer Welch is a host of the extremely popular. I've had it with podcasts and trust me when I say you're not tuning in. If you're not tuning in, you're missing that show. You're missing something really great. Hi guys. How you doing?
Great. How are you? Thanks for having us.
I'm doing really great. Congratulations on your big get for the debate, by the way. The former president, Barack Obama, was on your show and I was rooting for you guys and bumping into you. That was amazing.
It was great. Always great to see Don. Thank you. I did. No, we did. We saw Don in the halls of the United Center and Angie, my co-host of the podcast, and I screamed Don Lemon and just squeezed him as tight as we could.
That was some great love there. Josh was like, wait a minute. I missed out on these moments. I don't think I would have gotten. I saw you too. You just didn't recognize me. We walked right by each other like three times. Are you serious? Say hello. I was just, I did a little one of those, but you didn't recognize me. It's okay. I'll get you next time. You would have thought that I was running for, because people hadn't seen me and they were, they were stopping me to talk to them. It was a little nuts. OK, so let's discuss. I want to give you guys we have so much to talk about. We're going to talk about the debate. That's our topic. We're going to talk about post-debate polling and we're going to talk about Trump's racist Haitian conspiracy.
OK, so let me just give you a little context about what I said. As soon as the debate ended yesterday, we had early indications that Americans thought that Kamala Harris had won. According to CNN, SRS, a snap poll debate watcher said that 63 percent. to 37% that Harris had a better performance on stage. And keep in mind, prior to the debate, 50% of those polls said that they thought Trump would win, and 50% thought that Kamala Harris would win. But today, got even more evidence that voters think that Harris cleaned Trump's clock. Two important polls dropped just this afternoon. In a national poll from the Morning Consult, Harris now leads 50 to 45. Look at that face. I see you smiling there, Jennifer.
That's our biggest lead ever in the morning consult poll. What is more, a national Ipsos Reuters poll, it's 47 to 42 in Harris's favor. So Josh, this is what you do over at Hit Strategies. What do you read into this shift? And I understand some of the polling that you're going to share as well. So what do you read into this? Is it sustainable? Is this good? Is it just a bump that she might get right after a debate? Will it last? Yeah, so polling certainly doesn't tell us whether or not a leader is sustainable.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–0:33
2
Did Kamala Harris clearly win the debate and what immediate poll bumps followed?
0:33–11:54
3
Which national polls show a post-debate shift toward Harris and how big is the lead?
11:54–13:57
4
Can post-debate polling gains for Harris be sustained or are they temporary?
13:57–18:45
5
How did commentators and the Lincoln Project frame Trump’s debate performance?
18:45–1:07:13