The Two Biggest Winners of the Fox GOP Debate Were Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton

Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 01:49 pm

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Bernie Sanders won the Republican debate, if you use Twitter as your metric. Hillary Clinton was right after him. In fact, the most popular candidate tweets about the GOP debate came from the two Democratic front-runners for president.

This won the evening for most popular tweet:

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Political news editor at the Washington Post Rebecca Sinderbrand pointed out: “Twitter stats for tonight’s Republican debate, which featured Republicans competing for the Republican nomination”:

Bernie Sanders came in first among all retweets about the debate, followed by the Daily Show and Bill Maher.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton won with the most popular tweets about a Republican debate.

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