Biden surges in primary polls

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tony Stark, Apr 30, 2019.

  1. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Biden surges in primary polls

    Former Vice President Joe Biden has surged in the polls since launching his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, opening up a double-digit lead over the rest of the field in two new national surveys.

    A CNN poll released Tuesday found Biden jumping 11 points to 39 percent support, a 24-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is at 15 percent support. No other candidate in the race has double-digit backing from respondents.

    And a Morning Consult survey released Tuesday found Biden with 36 percent support, followed by Sanders at 22 percent. That's a 6-point bounce for Biden from the same survey released earlier this month, while Sanders has fallen by 2 points. No other candidate reaches double-digit support in the Morning Consult poll, either.

    Biden's polling strength also extends to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.


    A Suffolk University survey released Tuesdayfound the former Delaware senator in the lead in New Hampshire with 20 percent support, followed by Sanders and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 12 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is in fourth place at 8 percent.

    If Biden were to win New Hampshire it would be a massive blow to Sanders and Warren, who come from nearby states and are seen as having a home-field advantage in the Northeast.

    Biden's strength in the polls is driven by his broad support from African Americans. Biden has 43 percent support from black voters, according to Morning Consult. Sanders is at 20 percent here, followed by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) at 10 percent.


    The same holds true in the CNN poll, with Biden hitting 50 percent among nonwhite voters. Sanders is a distant second at 14 percent, and no other candidate is in double-digits.

    With Biden emerging as the clear early front-runner, the Democrats lagging behind are increasingly taking shots at him and his decades-long voting record.

    Sanders went after Biden with his most direct attacks yet on Monday night on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."



    "I helped lead the fight against NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement], [Biden] voted for NAFTA. I helped lead the fight against China [on trade], he voted for it. I strongly opposed [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], he supported it. I voted against the war in Iraq, he voted for it," Sanders said.

    President Trump also unloaded on Biden with a series of Twitter attacks, suggesting the president and his political team view the former vice president as a formidable challenger.

    The attacks from the White House further help Biden separate himself from the pack of Democrats behind him, setting up an early one-on-one with the president that sets Biden above the fray.



    Biden has sought to draw early contrasts between himself and Trump, opening his launch speech by attacking the president's response to the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

    On Monday, Biden rallied union workers at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, a state Trump turned red in the last election for the first time since 1988.

    "I'm sick of this President badmouthing unions," Biden tweeted. "Labor built the middle class in this country ... we need a president who honors them and their work."
     
  2. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    47 percent of black women say they'd back Biden: poll

    Nearly half of black women say they would support former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary, according to a new Morning Consult poll.

    Forty-seven percent of black women surveyed for the poll said Biden is their top choice to be the Democratic nominee, giving him a wide lead in the demographic over his rivals.

    Another 18 percent of the black women polled said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is their top choice, and 9 percent said they back Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).

    Biden also has the most support among white women, with 36 percent of white women naming him as their top choice, the poll found.

    The poll's results are based on surveys with a sample of 15,475 registered voters who indicated they may participate in their state's Democratic primary or caucus. The surveys were conducted from April 22-28 and the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.

    Another poll released Tuesday showed Biden with the lead among nonwhite voters in the Democratic presidential primary race.

    The CNN/SRSS survey showed Biden with the support of 50 percent of nonwhite voters, giving him a commanding lead over his Democratic rivals in the key demographic.
     
  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

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  4. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    After watching the below video, I actually feel sorry for him. I am not sure that he can make it through the race.

    He couldn't even make it through one of the most boring speeches I have ever seen. He put the crowd to sleep.

    Biden might work better than sleeping pills.

    I don't care about the current poll results. There is no way that guy beats Trump in the long term. If you watch the video and you are objective, you will most likely agree. If you are really honest with yourself, I bet that you actually like watching Trump more than Sleepy Joe.

     
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  5. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    If Biden picks a black vp,which he certainly will,he crushes Trump.
     
  6. Does this imply Blacks are racist?
     
  7. Wallet

    Wallet

    Lol, Tony is the poster child of racism.
    As for the thread topic, of course Biden is surging, he's the least "left" in a field of candidates that make the likes of Marx, Lenin and Castro look normal. Question is, can he walk the tightrope and gather enough delegates without relying on the olé establishment Super Delegates and fracturing the party.
     
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  8. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    They will be voting for Biden like they did Obama.That means game over for Trump.
     
  9. smallfil

    smallfil

    That is nothing. I have seen multiple videos of Joe Biden with his hands on young girls which could your own daughters. I was incensed! Democrats have been defending him and his photos and videos of adult women with his hands on their shoulders and smelling their hair is pretty tame! I urge you to go to twitter and see for yourself the videos! Those in attack ads would finish Joe Biden on the spot! This guy is unfit to become President of the United States!
     
  10. smallfil

    smallfil

    #10     Apr 30, 2019