The Donald Trump Debate Show By the Numbers

Ask most political observers who won Wednesday night's Republican debate, broadcast by CNN from the Ronald Reagan presidential library in California, and they'll almost certainly say it's the newcomer to the stage, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Ask the data and you get a different answer: It's still Donald Trump's party.

Despite a somewhat lackluster performance, including long bouts of silence from the famously boisterous Trump, the current front-runner once again dominated the debate proceedings by many metrics, according to an analysis of CNN rush transcripts conducted by Bloomberg Politics in partnership with Adam Tiouririne (@Tiouririne) of Logos Consulting Group. He advises senior business executives on high-stakes communication grounded in his research about how leaders perform at their most important—and most widely broadcast—moments.