--- description: Tell us what you think. title: Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate? image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt232c1509070c517f/6988a6af524fc07e08df9872/clinton-trump2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Debates](/tag/debates/) ## Debates Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate? by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 27, 2016 2:20 AM CUT  Getty Images (2) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 27, 2016 2:20 AM CUT Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton met for their first presidential debate Monday, 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 debate at Hofstra University in New York. A disclaimer: Online reader polls like this one are not statistically representative of likely voters, and are not predictive of how the debate outcome will affect the election. 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/4506217/presidential-debate-clinton-trump-survey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4506217/presidential-debate-clinton-trump-survey/"},"headline":"Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate?","datePublished":"2016-09-27T02:20:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:48:08.638Z","description":"Tell us what you think.","url":"https://time.com/4506217/presidential-debate-clinton-trump-survey/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt232c1509070c517f/6988a6af524fc07e08df9872/clinton-trump2.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/blt232c1509070c517f/6988a6af524fc07e08df9872/clinton-trump2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"clinton-trump","caption":"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","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/4506217/presidential-debate-clinton-trump-survey/","name":"Vote Now: Who Won the First Clinton-Trump Debate?"}}]}] ```