Who won the first presidential debate Monday night between Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Republican nominee, businessman Donald Trump, at Hofstra University?

This was the first of three debates the two candidates will take part in before the Nov. 8 general election. With the race running so close in key battleground states like Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, both candidates needed to dominate and score points with undecided voters in the 90-minute performance at Hofstra University on Long Island.

Two national polls released just hours before Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met in their first presidential debate placed the race for the White House in a virtual dead heat.

Clinton led Trump, 47 percent to 46 percent, in a Quinnipiac University poll and the two candidates were tied at 46 percent in a Bloomberg Politics survey.

A McClatchy/Marist poll last week showed 69 percent of Trump supporters said they strongly supported the Republican nominee, compared with 62 percent of Clinton backers who said the same about their candidate.

Clinton and Trump square off for their second debate on Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis. Using a town hall format, the moderator and members of the audience will pose questions directly to the candidates.

The final presidential debate will be held Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, using the same format as the first debate.

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