New poll shows challenges for President Trump, good news for former VP Biden and growth potential for some of the Democrats’ fresh faces.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON - Before citizens can actually vote for a presidential candidate, they first have to be comfortable with him or her andoffers some clues about where voters stand on the growing 2020 field.
Republicans look to be all in on the president, with 79 percent saying they are enthusiastic or comfortable. What about the Democrats? The NBC/WSJ poll tested five names in this survey: Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, California Sen. Kamal Harris, and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke.
Among self-described Democratic voters, the candidate order was Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris and O’Rourke. But beyond that, there were no remarkable differences. With each candidate, the number of Democrats who were “comfortable” was larger than the number that were “enthusiastic.” And if you are wondering whether one candidate had an edge in the intensity department, Biden had the largest “enthusiastic” number with Democrats as well.
The rest of the field is in the single digits among Republicans. Sanders and Warren are at eight percent. Harris and O’Rourke are at four percent.
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