Sanders climbs, now tied with Biden among registered voters: Reuters
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[January 17, 2020]
By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie
Sanders has been steadily climbing in popularity this year and is now
tied with former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic
presidential nomination among registered voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos
national poll.
The online poll, released Thursday, shows that 20% of registered
Democrats and independents said they would back Sanders over 11 other
candidates to run in the general election against President Donald
Trump, an increase of 2 percentage points from a similar poll that ran
last week.
Another 19% supported Biden, 12% said they would vote for Senator
Elizabeth Warren, 9% backed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
and 6% said they would support Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South
Bend, Indiana.
Sanders and Bloomberg have increased their level of support in each of
the last three Reuters/Ipsos polls starting in mid-December, while
support for Biden, Warren and Buttigieg has remained flat.
The poll also shows that about one in five potential primary voters
remain undecided. And among those who have picked, nearly two out of
three say they are open to changing their minds.
Sanders, an independent who built a national network of fervent
supporters while running for the party's nomination in 2016, has
consistently ranked among the most popular candidates since he entered
the race.
The poll shows that standing does not appear to have been hurt by his
recent confrontation with Warren over Sanders' views of women and
politics.
Warren, who is aligned with Sanders on a variety of issues, has accused
him of telling her in 2018 that a woman could not be elected president.
Sanders disputes that claim, and the two sniped at each other after this
week's presidential debate about how they were framing the conversation
in public.
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Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates (L-R) former Vice
President Joe Biden greeets Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as they
take the stage for the seventh Democratic 2020 presidential debate
at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 14, 2020.
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
The dispute has the potential to reconfigure a Democratic nomination
race that has stagnated for months with no single candidate emerging
as the clear front-runner.
According to Reuters/Ipsos polling from December to January, women
are the party's biggest swing group: they are more than twice as
likely as men to say they are undecided about which candidate to
support. Among those women who have picked a candidate, nearly two
out of three say they are open to changing their minds.
So far, Sanders' and Warren's support remains unchanged among women,
with about 15% supporting Sanders and 11% supporting Warren.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted in English throughout the
United States from Jan. 15-16. It gathered responses from 681
Democrats and independents, including 552 who were registered to
vote. The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of precision,
of about 5 percentage points.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Tom Brown)
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