--- title: Republican Debate: Vote Now on Who Won the Ninth Debate description: A post-debate poll canonical: https://time.com/4220703/republican-debate-ninth-south-carolina-poll-survey/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-14T03:49:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:03:52.837Z article:section: Politics og:title: Vote Now: Who Won the Ninth Republican Debate? og:description: A post-debate poll. og:url: https://time.com/4220703/republican-debate-ninth-south-carolina-poll-survey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a16d97c3f35ab4a/69887d970a4a22413d9c85f5/republican-debate4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Last minute preparations are made on the stage for the Republican Presidential debate on February 13, 2016 in Greenville, South Carolina. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vote Now: Who Won the Ninth Republican Debate? twitter:description: A post-debate poll. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a16d97c3f35ab4a/69887d970a4a22413d9c85f5/republican-debate4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vote Now: Who Won the Ninth Republican Debate? by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 14, 2016 3:49 AM UTC  Last minute preparations are made on the stage for the Republican Presidential debate on February 13, 2016 in Greenville, South Carolina. Last minute preparations are made on the stage for the Republican Presidential debate on February 13, 2016 in Greenville, South Carolina.Spencer Platt—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 14, 2016 3:49 AM UTC Republicans met for their ninth presidential debate Saturday, 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 CBS debate in Greenville, South Carolina. 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. Republican Debate: Vote Now on Who Won the Ninth Debate ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4220703/republican-debate-ninth-south-carolina-poll-survey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4220703/republican-debate-ninth-south-carolina-poll-survey/"},"headline":"Vote Now: Who Won the Ninth Republican Debate?","datePublished":"2016-02-14T03:49:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:03:52.837Z","description":"A post-debate poll","url":"https://time.com/4220703/republican-debate-ninth-south-carolina-poll-survey/","keywords":["Debates","Sen. Marco Rubio","ted cruz","jeb bush","Donald Trump","john kasich","South Carolina","Dr. Benjamin S. Carson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a16d97c3f35ab4a/69887d970a4a22413d9c85f5/republican-debate4.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/blt6a16d97c3f35ab4a/69887d970a4a22413d9c85f5/republican-debate4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Last minute preparations are made on the stage for the Republican Presidential debate on February 13, 2016 in Greenville, South Carolina.","caption":"Last minute preparations are made on the stage for the Republican Presidential debate on February 13, 2016 in Greenville, South Carolina.","creditText":"Spencer Platt—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/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4220703/republican-debate-ninth-south-carolina-poll-survey/","name":"Vote Now: Who Won the Ninth Republican Debate?"}}]}] ```