A survey released Monday by Democratic pollsters BSG and exclusively provided to Salon found that people who watched last week's debate thought Donald Trump did better than President Joe Biden by a more than 2-to-1 margin, with six in 10 respondents saying they don't think the incumbent is likely to finish a second four-year term in office.
While the poll found viewers of the debate evenly split between the two candidates in the event of an election, a majority of the 509 people surveyed said they found the rematch "frightening" (56%) and "depressing" (63%). Some 41% of respondents said the debate made them less likely to vote for Biden, compared to 30% for Trump, findings that come amid a heated debate within the Democratic Party over whether Biden remains the best candidate to defeat Trump in November.
