Numerous informal polls conducted after Wednesday night's Republican primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library say that billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump was the winner by a huge margin, just as he was in the first debate held in August.
"The 11 leading Republican presidential candidates took to the state for their second debate Wednesday night. Who do you think won?" asked TIME.
Of the 88,540 votes recorded so far, 59 percent said the winner was Trump, who continued to espouse his typical bombastic rhetoric and personal attacks.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina came in second place with 17 percent. She was nearly excluded from the second debate but ended up being Trump's most effective challenger, criticizing him for being a poor businessman and for his previous comments about her appearance.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who pundits praised for his foreign policy stance, came in third place in the TIME poll with 6 percent. Tied for fourth with 4 percent each were retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who schooled Trump on vaccines, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, arguably the most conservative candidate on stage.
Trump dominated in a Slate poll as well, with support from 45 percent of voters. Fiorina placed second with 23 percent, Rubio third with six percent and Carson and Paul tied in fourth with five percent each.
And in a Drudge Report poll, Trump again came out on top with 53.35 percent, followed by Fiorina with 20.84 percent, Rubio with 6.24 percent and Cruz with 5.92 percent.
It was practically the same story in a Newsmax poll, too, with Trump garnering 46.26 percent support, Fiorina 20.11 percent, Rubio 9.32 percent and Carson 9.22 percent.
While these polls certainly aren't scientific in methodology, they still offer a somewhat reasonable look into how Americans felt about the candidates' performance immediately after the debates.
The next Republican debate is scheduled to be held on Oct. 28 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, according to the 2016 Election Central.
CNN will host the first Democratic primary debate on Oct. 13 in Las Vegas.
