Bernie Sanders meanwhile, is losing numbers to Elizabeth Warren ….
Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead an ever-growing pack of Democratic White House hopefuls, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released Wednesday.
The May 17-18 survey found Biden was the preferred pick to become president of 33 percent of registered voters who identified as Democrats or as independents who leaned toward the party.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was the choice of 14 percent of respondents. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren was named by 8 percent followed by mayor Pete Buttigiegand Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) both with 6 percent. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke was backed by 5 percent of respondents.
None of the other candidates received more than 1 percent support. Several aspirants were not named by any participant: Gov. Steve Bullock (D-Mont.), former Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Washington), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), Florida mayor Wayne Messam, and author Marianne Williamson.
A large number of respondents, 19 percent, were undecided.
While she still trails the leading two candidates, Warren’s support has increased across several different polls in recent weeks but it has come at Sanders’ expense, Emma Vigeland, a correspondent with the progressive video network The Young Turks, told Hill.TV on Wednesday.
“Warren is rising and rightly so and she’s cutting into that Bernie Sanders chunk which I believe is substantial and not going anywhere,…
Republican pollster Frank Lunt still claims that Sanders is the most likely Democratic nominee.
The guy WANTS Sanders, who would be a SURE loser
I think Sanders is fading–for now. He was polling better when Warren was struggling. Now that she seems to be slowly rising in the polls with the same voters who are targeted by Bernie he is slipping.
Buttegieg may be pulling in some of those voters too.
Yes he is.
Sanders big advantage last time,of course, was that he was the only alternative to Hillary and he was the “ Left” candidate.
Now?
He has to share that distinction with a host of others.
Well, last time, in Iowa at least where he made his first stand, there was O’Malley and a couple others.
The kind of people who go to Caucuses could be beneficial to Bernie.
I think it’s funny that Wayne Messam is running for President and polling at 0% in Florida, his home state, where he is the only Floridian running.
Nonetheless, Miramar is larger than South Bend.
How many of these people are polling in the LOW single digits to around Zero?
History has never been kind to Democrat “frontrunners.” They have a reason to stick around.
It’s pretty amazing though that Biden is going to have to take the stage with the 0-1 percent club in debates, because Democrats aren’t going to do the “undercard” thing. So those people have nothing to lose. Who knows what they might confront Biden with?
I support the debates just I supported primary pushback against Hillary….
It’s good practice for the general election…
My wife correctly pointed out that even with the lead?
Biden’s handlers have keep his utterances mostly out of there media….
Yes….
The 20 plus really have little to lose …..
They WILL be getting attention…
But it’s already falling away with Biden’s lead….
Yeah OMalley,Linc Chaffee, Jim Webb…Haha…The never were gonna bes!
Actually, I’m surprised by Bernie’s numbers.I would have thought that he would be much closer to Biden just on recognition alone.
Looking back over the past couple of years, it is a bit surprising that both he and Warren are running. One would have assumed they could have worked out a deal between them.
Deal?
Sanders?
That guy is NOT woman friendly from what I’ve seen….
What have you “seen” from Sanders to indicate that?
There are all sorts of allegations about men working in his last campaign, which doesn’t really surprise me. But it’s not like Bernie himself has been accused of being “handsy” in any context.
He has other problems, but the left wing activists in your party do not think they are problems.
CG?
The universal view I have heard from women (unofficial) is that he seems hostile to women …
What I have seen is a guy who has few women around him…
Who is knocking Warren in his quest for votes for the nomination…
He HAS come together with AOC several time though and did campaign for Hillary….
Oh, and he wrote that essay in 1972 about a rape fantasy. You can’t forget that I assume.
1972?
How many decades ago?
And Biden can’t touch Trump in that department, eh?
James,I believe CG was referring to Bernie Sanders as to that rape fantasy.
Ok….
My mistake….
Wow?
Russian connection….Now a sexual angle?
Bernie is coming down to earth….
This IS all past stuff…But he IS a guy with warts like the rest….
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Neither seem like “Deal” type people to me.
The running poll numbers have Biden ahead of Sanders by almost 2 to 1 consistency….
The bottom tier people are in the low single digits….
Remember?
In the latest polls Sanders IS as well know to Democratic voters as Biden…