Most Democrats Think Hillary Clinton Won First Debate

“Clinton’s willingness to engage Sanders on gun control established her progressive credentials”, said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston.

Clinton, for her part, is clearly enjoying the upswing in momentum coming out of the first debate. A RealClearPolitics.com look at surveys testing various match-ups suggests that Clinton, Biden, or Sanders could beat the current Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, but Biden would have a more comfortable margin (11 points) compared to Clinton (1.6 points) or Sanders (4.3).

The figure, based on Nielsen data, was smaller than the 24 million and the 22.9 million viewers who watched the first two Republican debates, shown on Fox News Channel and CNN respectively. “I do support the use of medical marijuana, and I think even there we need to do a lot more research so that we know exactly how we’re going to help people for whom medical marijuana provides relief”, Clinton said.

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., went head-to-head for the first time this week, but consensus on the victor of the inaugural 2016 Democratic presidential debate varied.

Mr Sanders, who spent his honeymoon in Soviet Russian Federation and is viewed as America’s answer to Jeremy Corbyn, said he was not a capitalist and that America should be more like Denmark.

And last is the claim from former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley that “70 percent of us are earning the same, or less than we were 12 years ago”.

She said: “It’s our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism but we would be making a big mistake to turn our backs on what made the greatest middle class in the history of the world”.

And I’m glad that he addressed it like that and got it out of the way, ‘ another said. Granholm called the debate the “best two hours of the campaign so far”.

Trump, who often takes to Twitter to share his message, live tweeted the event, tossing out comments mainly directed at front runners Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

“In the Drudge poll, I was a very strong second”, he said, citing The Drudge Report’s sampling.

Perhaps most important for Clinton, she left many observers wondering whether Biden still has an opening for a late entry into the race.

O’Malley, Axelrod told CNN, had a “strong night” but didn’t perform “in such a way that he will catapult up into the mix”. “She came out the victor.”, said the businessman.