According to at least two polls, Donald Trump may have suffered little or no damage from Monday’s night debate.

Even though a CNN/ORC poll conducted after the debate found voters thought Hillary Clinton won the contest by a 35-point margin, initial findings from other polling outlets suggest the performance did not impact how viewers intend to vote.

“Just 9 percent of voters said the debate changed their minds about who they will be voting for, while about eight out of 10 said it wouldn’t matter.”

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On Wednesday, two fresh polls, with at least some voters surveyed after Monday’s debate, showed little or no swing to Clinton.

The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Wednesday showed Hillary Clinton with a small lead, 47.86 percent to Trump’s 47.69 percent. The poll is conducted online.

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Trump stayed idle from the previous survey, while the poll saw Clinton climb slightly — hardly a big bump.

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Better news for Trump was the Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll.

Wednesday morning’s poll found that Trump leads among likely voters, 46.7 percent, to Clinton’s 42.6 percent.

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The poll is unconventional, as USC chose 3,000 voters and uses only daily surveys from that pool to put together a daily tracking poll.

That makes the LA Times/USC tracking poll noteworthy, as its managers say it can detect reactions in each day’s surveys of hundreds of its steady respondents. Given that Trump was at 46.2 percent the day before, it means the next day’s uptick may show that Trump emerged from Monday’s debate with little damage done and even won over some new voters.

The one poll that had Clinton improve post-debate said the contest itself had little impact.

“The impact of Monday’s debate is still small,” wrote Cameron Easley for Morning Consult. “Just 9 percent of voters said the debate changed their minds about who they will be voting for, while about eight out of 10 said it wouldn’t matter. Before the debate, Trump led Clinton by 1 point in the four-way race with Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. But Clinton now leads Trump by 3 points (41 percent to 38 percent), and in a head-to-head scenario, she leads by 4 points (45 percent to 41 percent).”

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The news the debate likely did no serious damage to Trump’s campaign will certainly be welcome to his supporters — but it won’t stop staffers from trying to make improvements ahead of the second contest with Clinton.

The New York Times reported Wednesday morning that Trump’s campaign is lobbying him to practice more. He reportedly sat and talked to advisers more than he stood at a lectern and jousted with aides in practice, The Times reports.

In the first 20 minutes of Monday’s debate, Trump was on a roll. Particularly effective was Trump’s mocking of Clinton for her “30 years” of talk and work. Trump then noted Clinton supported many of the policies she now appears to oppose, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Then Trump started explaining himself. In politics, if you are explaining or complaining, you are losing.

Particularly bothersome to Trump supporters were two moments: when Trump didn’t take an opportunity to talk about Clinton’s emails, and when he explained that comedienne Rosie O’Donnell deserved his derogatory comments. Debates should be full of negative talk about the opponent — not oneself.

Trump needs to defend himself only to explain his agenda or present himself as an agent of change. When attacks on Trump are made, he must pivot and counterattack Hillary Clinton.

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“People know who Hillary is — they’ve seen her and heard about her for 30 years,” said Sean Spicer, chief strategist for the Republican National Committee, in remarks to The Times. “And what needs to be done next is that he is seen as the element of change.” Spicer works part-time for the Trump campaign.

Still, U.S. history is replete with premature Election Day winners.

After the first debate in the 1984 presidential election, Democrat Walter Mondale, the former vice president, nicknamed himself the “Louisville Slugger” after defeating President Ronald Reagan in Kentucky. The late David Broder of The Washington Post noted that Mondale’s staff said he had “gained momentum” from his victory over President Reagan in the debate.

Steve Elmendorf, a Mondale campaign aide, told Broder, “It makes an amazing difference.”

“The people I call the party hackery are all pumped,” said Elmendorf after a rally. “The elected officials, the union leaders suddenly have gotten a lot more willing to put out the bodies and the buses.”

Mondale went on to lose 49 states.

One thing that helped Reagan’s landslide was practicing for the second debate. Reagan was better prepared for zingers, and had no problem pivoting. It’s history worth remembering.