Former Vice President Joe Biden maintained his sizeable lead among Democratic presidential candidates, with Sen. Bernie Sanders holding on to the second spot, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren showed the most upward mobility by surging into third place, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Tuesday.
Biden topped the poll with 32 percent support among Democrats, down two points from the last survey in July. Sanders is second at 16 percent, while Warren went up five points, the most of any candidate, to third place with 13 percent.
Other results from the survey include:
- Sen. Kamala Harris fell to fourth place at 7 percent, followed by both South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke at 4 percent.
- Sen. Cory Booker, at 3 percent, and former tech executive Andrew Yang, at 2 percent, were the only other candidates above one percent.
- Thirty-six percent of respondents said Biden has the best chance of defeating President Donald Trump in next year’s election, 13 percent said Sanders had the best chance and 8 percent thought that of Warren.
Harvard CAPS/Harris poll co-director Mark Penn said that, although Biden continues to hold a steady lead, “he has to show some movement soon as others are gaining in excitement and momentum.”
The poll surveyed 985 registered Democratic voters from Aug. 26-28. It is a collaboration of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and The Harris Poll. Full results will be posted later this week. The survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Panel, weighted to reflect known demographics and does not report a probability confidence interval.
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