--- title: Republican Debate: Vote on Who Won the Eighth Debate description: A post-debate poll canonical: https://time.com/4210912/vote-now-who-won-the-eighth-republican-presidential-debate/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-07T03:31:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:50:22.468Z article:section: Politics og:title: Vote Now: Who Won the Eighth Republican Debate? og:description: A post-debate poll. og:url: https://time.com/4210912/vote-now-who-won-the-eighth-republican-presidential-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4b97a91c27911b/69887c82f887dc2dbee947f6/timepol-gop-republican-debate-new-hampshire-24.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL GOP Debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vote Now: Who Won the Eighth Republican Debate? twitter:description: A post-debate poll. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4b97a91c27911b/69887c82f887dc2dbee947f6/timepol-gop-republican-debate-new-hampshire-24.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vote Now: Who Won the Eighth Republican Presidential Debate? by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 7, 2016 3:31 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidates appear onstage during the Republican presidential debate on Feb. 6, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. Republican presidential candidates appear onstage during the Republican presidential debate on Feb. 6, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.Nate Gowdy for TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 7, 2016 3:31 AM UTC Republicans met for their eighth presidential debate Saturday night, and we want to know who you think won. Take a moment to click the link below next to the candidate who you thought did the best at the ABC debate in New Hampshire. A disclaimer: 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4210912/vote-now-who-won-the-eighth-republican-presidential-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4210912/vote-now-who-won-the-eighth-republican-presidential-debate/"},"headline":"Vote Now: Who Won the Eighth Republican Presidential Debate?","datePublished":"2016-02-07T03:31:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:50:22.468Z","description":"A post-debate poll","url":"https://time.com/4210912/vote-now-who-won-the-eighth-republican-presidential-debate/","keywords":["Debates","Chris Christie","Sen. Marco Rubio","ted cruz","jeb bush","new hampshire","Donald Trump","john kasich","Dr. Benjamin S. Carson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4b97a91c27911b/69887c82f887dc2dbee947f6/timepol-gop-republican-debate-new-hampshire-24.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/blt1d4b97a91c27911b/69887c82f887dc2dbee947f6/timepol-gop-republican-debate-new-hampshire-24.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIMEPOL GOP Debate","caption":"Republican presidential candidates appear onstage during the Republican presidential debate on Feb. 6, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.","creditText":"Nate Gowdy for TIME","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/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4210912/vote-now-who-won-the-eighth-republican-presidential-debate/","name":"Vote Now: Who Won the Eighth Republican Presidential Debate?"}}]}] ```