A focus group that watched former President Donald Trump debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday revealed some surprising insights as the candidates touched on key issues in the election.
Lee Carter, pollster and president of Maslansky + Partners, conducted the focus group for Fox News, which included having voters react through the use of turn dials that allowed them to respond moment-by-moment to what each candidate was saying.
The most surprising result was that on all the major issues — the economy, inflation, illegal immigration and the border, and energy — independents tracked in nearly perfect unison with Republican voters while Democrats had the inverse reactions.
On those issues, Democrats responded in a strong positive manner to Harris’ attacks on Trump’s economic agenda. Those same Democrat voters only responded in a moderately positive manner on the rest of the issues.
The independent and Republican voters responded in a strong positive manner to what Trump said and in a strong negative manner to what Harris said.
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