The polls showed Vivek as the winner but Fox being part of the establishment wants nikki who has been been a cheer leader for wars. They changed their tunes a day or so after the debate.
Whats in Viveks favour is Elon Musk, Tucker carlson and most of podcasts support him. In Fox some anchors like both Trump and Vivek like Laura Ingrham, Kayleigh McEnany. But Warmongers in there like Hannity and others have foreign policy disagreement with Trump and Vivek. Murdoch don't like Trump they where betting on Desantis, who appears to be the new low energy bush.
Podcasts again pivoted back to Trump after his mugshot. But Vivek is the clear Trump alternative. If trump ends up in Jail and assuming the US doesn't split apart. Maga will pivot to Vivek. While
But there are racists in maga who are MT(trump)GA who would not vote for Vivek, mainly those christian white nationalists.
But Vivek is best candidate to win the general elections, he will be getting lot of independent votes and the sane democratic voters not the looney left voters. He will also get most of the Indian american votes. Anti war libertarian voters.