Carly Fiorina just snagged the No. 2 GOP slot in a post-debate poll
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina gained ground after her favorable performance in Wednesday night's debate. A post-debate CNN/ORC poll released Sunday shows Fiorina in second place with 15 percent of the party's prospective vote, a 9-point boost from August, and 52 percent deemed her Wednesday's winner.
Donald Trump is still the Republican frontrunner, but he dropped to 24 percent, 8 points lower than he sat earlier in September.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continued a decline that's reportedly worrying his donors. He once led the field in Iowa, but received less than one-half of one percent of the vote in Sunday's poll, which surveyed 1,006 adults.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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