With Debate Over, Focus Shifts to Its Impact on Undecided Voters

With the first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump now concluded, attention has turned to its potential impact on undecided voters as the 2024 campaign enters its home stretch. Following the debate, both campaigns were quick to declare victory. While commentators have taken sides on who performed better in the debate, the jury is still out on whether undecided voters were swayed one way or the other. “Typically, debates do not seem to have much of a lasting effect on vote choice,” Karen Hult, a political science professor at Virginia Tech, told The Epoch Times. Reuters said out of a group of 10 undecided voters it interviewed after the debate, six out of ten said they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward him. Three said they would support Harris, while one remained uncertain about their decision....