It’s been two weeks since Joe Biden made official what was going on for months….
His support has grown…
Sanders has tried to bend and twist himself into something more electable for Democrats…
But?
He is STILL viewed as much he has been seen the last time he ran for the nomination as a Independent in the Democratic Party ….
Democratic voters on the whole, do not vote for him….
Progressive’s from the left express strong support for Sanders…
But they do NOT vote in the same numbers as regular Democrats….
Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton two years ago….
He is losing support already to Joe Biden….
We’ll see how this goes….
But it has be worrisome to Sanders supporters…
Since officially jumping into the 2020 race less than two weeks ago, former Vice President Joe Biden has reshaped the Democratic primary. His polling numbers have risen from the high 20s to the low 40s since declaring his candidacy two weeks ago. In doing so, Biden has, for the moment, left the rest of the Democratic field in the dust.
The Democratic race is far from a two-person contest, as the other candidates will attest. At this point, however, Biden and Sanders stand above the pack. But what’s happened since Biden announced is a widening of the gap between him and the senator from Vermont. On the day Biden announced his candidacy, the RealClearPolitics average of national polls showed him at 29 percent and Sanders at 23 percent. As of Thursday, Biden’s average was 41 percent and Sanders’s average was at 15 percent, based on a sample of five polls.
One issue for Sanders is the erosion in the support he received in 2016. He won New Hampshire with nearly 60 percent of the vote. He lost Iowa but ended up in a near-tie with Clinton. Today, his support in both those states lags significantly from those performances. In a field of 20-plus candidates, Sanders doesn’t need nearly the level of support he got in 2016 to win or be a significant factor, but his current poll average in New Hampshire of 15 percent is not a healthy sign.
Sanders has a loyal base. The question is just how big or small that core support is….
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