--- title: Republican Debate Poll: Who Won the Third CNBC GOP Debate? description: A post-debate poll canonical: https://time.com/4091596/third-republican-debate-poll-who-won/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T03:17:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:58.151Z article:section: Politics og:title: Vote Now: Who Won the Third Republican Presidential Debate? og:description: A post-debate poll og:url: https://time.com/4091596/third-republican-debate-poll-who-won/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d953a19714d63ab/69886e9f3c1639313545a71d/debate-gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4581 og:image:height: 2577 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vote Now: Who Won the Third Republican Presidential Debate? twitter:description: A post-debate poll twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d953a19714d63ab/69886e9f3c1639313545a71d/debate-gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vote Now: Who Won the Third Republican Presidential Debate? > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 29, 2015 3:17 AM UTC  Republican Presidential hopefuls (L-R) John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, and Rand Paul take the stage before the start of the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Republican Presidential hopefuls (L-R) John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, and Rand Paul take the stage before the start of the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate, October 28, 2015 at the Coors Event Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Ronym Beck—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 29, 2015 3:17 AM UTC Republicans met for their third presidential debate on Wednesday, and we want to know who you think won the night. Take a moment to click the link below next to the candidate who you thought did the best at the CNBC debate in Boulder, Colo. A disclaimer for [Donald Trump](https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/654844831903170560) (and possibly a few others): Online reader polls like this one are not statistically representative of eligible primary voters. They are a measure, however imprecise, of which candidates have the most energized online supporters, or most social media savvy fan base. After all, what they are counting is the number of Internet-devices controlled by people who want to vote. Past winners of TIME’s online polls in this election cycle have been Trump and Bernie Sanders, who also dominated [other online](https://www.facebook.com/cnn/app%5F1667241686824039) [post-debate](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/poll-who-do-you-think-won-the-first-democratic-debate) polls. A week after the Democratic debate, for example, a [statistically valid sample](http://time.com/4078484/hillary-clinton-won-democratic-debate-poll/) of the national Democratic electorate by CNN found that 62% believed Clinton was the winner, with Sanders getting the nod from 35%. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4091596/third-republican-debate-poll-who-won/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4091596/third-republican-debate-poll-who-won/"},"headline":"Vote Now: Who Won the Third Republican Presidential Debate?","datePublished":"2015-10-29T03:17:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:58.151Z","description":"A post-debate poll","url":"https://time.com/4091596/third-republican-debate-poll-who-won/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Donald Trump","2016 Republicans"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d953a19714d63ab/69886e9f3c1639313545a71d/debate-gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d953a19714d63ab/69886e9f3c1639313545a71d/debate-gop.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","creditText":"Ronym Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4091596/third-republican-debate-poll-who-won/","name":"Vote Now: Who Won the Third Republican Presidential Debate?"}}]}] ```