The frontrunners of the 2020 Democratic primary have both polled better against Trump than Clinton did at this time in 2016.
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are performing better than Hillary Clinton was in head-to-head polls against President Donald Trump at this point in the 2016 race, according to survey data.
At the Super Tuesday primaries held on March 1, 2016, Clinton won in seven of the 11 states that went to the ballot box. The former secretary of state also beat her progressive challenger Sen. Sanders byin several of those races—including the Texas primary, which she won with almost two-thirds of the vote.
Trump polled close behind the presumptive Democratic nominee, with the Real Clear Politics 2016 average showing he was backed by around 42 to 43 percent of Americans over the same period.Clinton carried that three-point head-to-head lead over Trump into polling day on November 8, 2016, and lost to the commander-in-chief on electoral college votes.
Sen. Sanders enjoyed a similar lead over the commander-in-chief, polling 4.9 percentage points ahead of him with backing from 49.4 percent of voters.
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