The first Republican presidential debate is over and done with and despite another questionable outburst from Trump, the mogul is surprisingly still lording it over the other Republican presidential hopefuls.

A survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos found that Trump had the support of at least 24 percent of identified Republican voters, his numbers virtually unchanged from before the debate started. His closest rival is Jeb Bush, the former Governor of Florida, who experienced a 17 percent drop in votes after the debate and now trails Trump at 12 percent.

The impressive numbers have already prompted several people from his own party to come up with a plan to dissuade him from running in a third-party in the event that he will not be able to secure the Republican nomination.

But Trump suffered some serious blowback with regards to his comments against debate moderator, Megyn Kelly. The self-proclaimed multimillionaire was apparently not happy with Kelly's questions regarding the verbal attacks he had launched against women.

Not surprisingly, Trump attacked the Fox News anchor, initially on Twitter and then during an interview with CNN. The businessman described Kelly as having "blood coming out of her eyes; blood coming out of her – wherever." Thousands immediately took it to mean that the presidential wannabe was talking about menstruation and that it was a jab against hormonal women.

But despite the criticism, Trumps numbers have not changed; the presidential hopeful himself seemed to have become more confident after the debate.

There is another debate coming up in California on Sept. 16. The event will be hosted by CNN and some Republicans are reportedly thinking of ways to corral Trump and extract his promise that he would not be talking or considering running as an independent.

Trump is not the only candidate to have benefited from the debate. Ex-technology Executive, Carly Fiorina, also caught the interest of more voters after the debate for lesser-known candidates. The Reuters/Ipsos poll showed her numbers rise from 1 to 6 percent.

In spite of Trump's appeal and numbers, it seems he is still no match against the Democrats main candidate, Hillary Clinton. The survey found that Clinton would still triumph over Trump by 43 percent to 29 percent, She would also do short work of other Republican presidential candidates like Bush, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.