Bernie Sanders IS in serious political trouble….
Elizabeth Warren isn’t gonna help…
Even before Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the race for President, voters in Florida were consolidating behind Joe Biden.
More than 61% of likely Florida voters favor Biden, according to the most recent survey by St. Pete Polls commissioned by Florida Politics (the full PDF of the poll is embedded below). That gives the former Vice President a commanding lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, at 12%, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with 5%.
The poll was conducted on Wednesday, the same day billionaire Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the race. Bloomberg was left in the field of active candidates and held the support of almost 14% of likely voters.
That showed a continued decline for Bloomberg since a poor debate performance in Nevada, which followed a surge in interest in his candidacy in Florida earlier this year.
Just as Bloomberg’s rise seemed to draw voters primarily away from Biden, his decline benefitted Biden in turn. The trend lines for St. Pete Polls surveys have shown those two candidates consistently leading the field since late January….
image…floridapolitics.com
Former Vice President Joe Biden has widened his lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Florida a week before the state’s Democratic presidential primary, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
The Florida Atlantic University BEPI poll, conducted in the days after Biden notched a series of primary wins on Super Tuesday, shows the former vice president with the support of 61 percent of Florida Democratic voters. Sanders trails by 36 percentage points, with 25 percent support.
The poll is the latest to show Biden with an outsized lead in the Sunshine State, which holds its primary on March 17. With 219 delegates up for grabs, Florida is one of the biggest prizes of the Democratic nominating contest, and a win there for Biden would be a massive boost to his campaign.
A survey from St. Pete Polls released last week showed Biden with an even wider 49-point lead over Sanders in Florida….
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Oh! How distasteful! Joe Biden defends his record, pull out the fainting coach!!
Sort of like Susan Collins being “concerned.” Meaningless from a Republican who will, in the end, throw away their vote on a third party.
Poor Corey, a man child without a party. So hysterical that the man who can actually beat Trump and help take back the Senate might be actually nominated by the Party he loves to hate.
The majority of Americans use Joe’s language as they also know what a “Devil’s Triangle” is. Because they aren’t phonies.
Well, we know H. Keith, a man who would regularly insinuate that politicians of a different color were dangerous gang members would approve of this.
Biden got into an on camera fight with an auto-worker today in Michigan over guns and told the auto-worker that he was “full of shit.” (I guess “fat” and “lying dog faced pony soldier” wore out their welcome.)
Why does he keep doing this? Is it on purpose or can he just not help himself when he gets criticized?
Why do you care? You aren’t going to vote for Biden in November anyway.
And neither you nor I will vote for Trump, but if he did this, we would both criticize it.
This guy (the auto worker) had an agenda. Biden called him out on it.
The guy was an NRA worshipper and is “full of shit”
Welcome to politics. Biden has been lashing out angrily at voters when he doesn’t like their questions or statements since 1987. He should know how to handle it better.
Sorry for being a Pollyanna, but I would like the next President to be someone that regardless of ideology parents can point out to as their children as someone worthy of respect. Lashing out with profanity at citizens when challenged is not a good trait in a leader.
Is Polly Anna who you are writing in for President?
You’ve defended Republicans who have gotten into it with protesters before.
But yeah, now it’s distasteful.
I’ve never defended anyone who would swear at a voter or call them names.
Polly Anna will be my choice for First Dog.
And even at the age of 77, if Biden told him to “die in a fire”, you would be celebrating it now, as long as a Democrat said it.
I guess we are just pretty different.
Oh Good Lord. I apologized for that and it happened in the same time you clobbered over a racist Kentucky “woman” who posted on Politics 1.
slobbered
you might have me confused with someone else.
I often criticized Republicans there for their rhetoric when I felt they want too far and some of the harshest vitriol directed against me on that site was from right-wingers.
Be better Biden. If someone “goes low”, go high.
The guy said he saw Biden was in support of gun confiscation on a viral video.
Yep, he was full of shit. Nice to have someone call them out on it. Go Joe!
I second THAT Scott….
Give’M Hell Joe!
Not the way to handle it. This hard to disguise trait be inviting more and more people to get in his face and try to get him to lose it on camera. If he genuinely cannot help himself, that’s going to be a problem.
There are plenty of politicians with “tempers”, John McCain for instance, who would have never reacted this way publicly. Then again, he actually had to suffer for his country and knew what was truly important in life.
Biden may not have served in the military but he lost his wife and daughter in a car crash and later his son to brain cancer.
I think he knows what is “truly important in life”
But I’m sure he’d like a lecture on that from a holier than thou Cubs fan, a once and future Republican who will be throwing his vote away in the most important election of our lifetime.
I’m out. Maybe James and Jack want to deal with this today but I’ve gotta vote!
lashing out at a voter like that when he wants to lead millions is not a good sign of perspective. And this is certainly nothing new with him.
So, as I asked, is he doing it on purpose for show or is he just that thin-skinned?
“You cannot lead the people if you do not love the people.”
Sen Cory Booker
I have not heard the audio of the exchange, but media outlets are reporting that Biden told the auto worker he would “slap you in the face.” (and also used the terms “horse’s ass” and “wuss bag” to the man)
I’m sorry but whomever is right or whomever is wrong on a political disagreement, you don’t have the right to say you are going to slap someone in the face.
Is this really something to be proud about with Biden?
Is sitting out the most important election of our lifetime something to be proud of?
Sorry our candidates are human and can’t reach the level of decency of your hero Dick Cheney.
Not sitting out any election. I will vote in November if alive and able to. Based on the way he acted today, I will be as proud to vote against Biden as I am to vote against Trump.
That’s nice.
You’ve called Trump a racist.
Now you’re equating Biden with the racist Trump because he used some rough language when confronted with a lying gun nut?
Your a piece of work!
Thankfully lots of thinking adult Republicans like the mayor in Michigan aren’t so obtuse.
Racism has nothing to do with this. Would Biden have attempted this line of response if it were a black guy or a woman though?
Non-racists do not get a pass for acting like assholes and threatening violence against people.
This all makes sense. You’ve been down since Biden’s campaign has been resurgent. While Sanders the socialist was leading you could claim you were rooting for Biden as the sensible choice.
This is your “out” now to claim your pox on both your houses stuff.
You are as predictable as the sun coming up in the East.
Wrong again. I am very happy that Sanders brand of politics (which you seem to share) is being rejected.
Sanders does not go around threatening to slap voters though. You seem to like the idea of people being slapped or being met with some sort of misfortune as long as you disagree with them.
This is why that recent poll Bill Maher was talking about shows far more Democrats than Republicans actually want the opposition to die.
The guy was full of shit, just like the Republican Party is full of shit.
I have work to do. See you after the returns come in.
How ironic it would be if that surrender to impatience leads to Biden losing Michigan to Bernie Sanders.
If Biden loses Michigan?
Every polling outfit should take the rest of the campaign off…
That or people are members of the Trump lying club….
Joe Biden is NOT Hillary Clinton
This isn’t 2016…
Bernie should not be pulling a rabbit out of the hat…