To be able to emerge victorious from a debate without even showing up is quite a feat, and, as Breitbart reports, it is one that former President Donald Trump managed to accomplish this past week.

Wednesday night saw yet another GOP primary debate take place, this time in Alabama, and though Trump once again made the decision to sidestep the proceedings altogether, a group of 30 voters in Georgia who convened for a watch party deemed him the evening's victor, regardless.

The surprising outcome was the subject of a report that appeared on an NBC Meet the Press Special that followed the debate, with the informal straw poll's results articulated by campaign correspondent Nnamdi Egwuonwu.

According to Egwuonwu Trump ended up with 18 of the 30 Atlanta debate viewers declaring him the winner, even though he was nowhere near what turned out to be a rancorous session among Republican hopefuls including Gov. Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Trump's closest rival in the results was Ramaswamy, who came in at a distance second place with just 5 votes from the informal poll participants.

DeSantis garnered 2 votes, while Christie and Haley took just one each, emphasizing the dramatic margin with which Trump appears to be running away with the primary contest.

As Mediaite noted, Egwuonwu asked of the watch party attendees to describe a particular moment in the debate that “left a mark” on him.

In response, a viewer named Will explained, “What left the mark for me was Nikki Haley being called out for being the warmonger that she is.”

Will also said, “At the same time, Ramaswamy holding up a notepad saying, 'Nikki is Corrupt.' And this is something that stands out really strongly in my mind and in the voter's mind.”

The bottom line for him, however, was that “they talked too much about Trump, a man that wasn't on the stage but ruled the stage tonight.”

Will's take on Ramaswamy appeared to resonate with Donald Trump Jr., who was asked after the debate what he thought about the Georgia watch party poll results.

Trump Jr. said, “The people get it, and the reason they gave Vivek the next number and the most is because he called out all the nonsense.”

Journalist Megyn Kelly, one of the moderators of Wednesday's debate, said she had been holding out hope that Trump might decide to grace the stage in Alabama, but realized that he really had little incentive to take part in the event, as the New York Post noted.

“I understand why he's not doing it. Just look at the polls. I'm not blind. I see what he sees,” Kelly said of Trump's massive lead in the primary race and his growing advantage over President Joe Biden in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, but whether his stance on remaining above this particular fray holds for the remainder of the campaign for the republican nomination, only time will tell.