Bernie Sanders leading the national polls
Senator Bernie Sanders is now leading Democratic candidate
Joe Biden is narrowly behind
Senator
Bernie Sanders has taken over former US vice president Joe Biden as the leading
Democratic candidate nationally revealed by CNN poll. CNN conducted this poll
between January 16 and 19. Joe Biden was
the leading candidate in the previous polls. Senator Bernie Sanders has taken
the lead for the first time.
Bernie Sanders has gained 7 points since the
last CNN poll on the race in December. Since that survey, the Vermont senator
has also made gains in early-state polling, including CNN's survey with the Des
Moines Register in Iowa, where the first caucuses of the cycle will be held in
less than two weeks.
Bernie Sanders
has made gains nearly across the board, clearly pulling away from Warren among
liberals (33% back Sanders, while 19% support Warren in the new poll), a group
where the two had been running closely through much of the fall. He has also
pulled about even with Biden among voters of color (30% for Sanders, 27% for
Biden).
27%
Democratic or Democratic leaning independent voters now supporting Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders while 24% are supporting Joe Biden according to CNN poll.
Both are leading the rest of the candidates including Elizabeth Warren and Pete
Buttigieg with a wide margin. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren now has support
of 14% voters while former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg enjoying 11%.
It’s not good
news for the Democratic Party establishment. The right wing Party establishment is
worried about the sudden surge in the popularity of Bernie Sanders. The party
leadership desperately wants to see him defeated in the primaries. It wants Joe
Biden as the Democratic Party candidate for the presidential elections 2020.
Sanders is
also most often seen as the candidate who agrees with voters on the issues that
matter most to them (30% say that's Sanders compared with 20% for Biden, 15%
for Warren and 10% for Buttigieg), and as the candidate who best understands
the problems facing people like you (29% name Sanders as best on that measure,
18% Biden, 17% Warren and 9% Buttigieg).
Bernie Sanders
is the only leading candidate which still has enthusiastic support among the
Democrat voters. still As the campaign
has taken a more negative turn, Democratic voters remain about as enthusiastic
about a potential Sanders nomination as they were earlier this fall (38% say
they would be enthusiastic should he win the nomination, on par with the 39%
who felt that way in October), while his chief rivals have seen enthusiasm
waning (enthusiasm for a Biden nomination has dipped 9 points to 34%; for
Warren, it's fallen 12 points to 29%).
Khalid Bhatti
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