The former vice president benefits from his name recognition among voters and has seen a six-point bounce in one poll since he entered the 2020 Democratic party primary.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a 14-point lead over his main rival in the 2020 Democratic party primary, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, after formally entering the race last week—but there’s a catch.
Sanders, who sits as an independent in the U.S. Senate, was on 22 percent in second place, down two points and below the 27 percent peak he polled back in February and March. In third spot was Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren on 9 percent, up one point. A Washington Post-ABC News poll of 427 Democrats published Monday also found that 54 percent of Democratic-leaning voters have not decided on any particular candidate, suggesting the field is still wide open with months left to run of the 2020 primary campaign.
Belcher explained that public polling is about the horse race and favorability, whereas campaign polling is geared toward developing a strategy to target specific voters and to build messages on particular issues that will resonate—as well as suss out opponents’ weaknesses. The pollster said Biden’s lead could be partly explained by name identification among voters because he has a significantly higher public profile from his time first as a senator for Delaware and then as vice president in the Obama administration.
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