Former Vice President Joe Biden has widened his lead over Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows.
Biden's numbers climbed to 31%, marking a 4-point jump since the poll's August results, reports The Hill. Sanders, I-Vt., came in second, at 16%, and Warren, D-Mass., followed in third place with 14%, falling within the poll's 4.7 percentage point margin of error.
On Saturday, Warren came out at two points ahead of Biden for the first time in Iowa, with a Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll putting her at 22% and Biden at 20%.
In other numbers in the Hill/HarrisX poll:
- Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris tied at 5%
- Beto O'Rourke, 4%
- Andrew Yang, 2%
- Other candidates polling at 2% or higher: Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.
For the survey, HarrisX questioned 440 Democratic and independent voters between Sept. 20 and Sept. 21.
The margin of error for this poll is plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
While the poll was going on, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio narrowed the field slightly when he announced on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" last Thursday that he was going to drop out of the race and continue as mayor.
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