Bloomberg hits 12 percent, surpasses Buttigieg in new national poll

[left-of-center2012]

Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg hit double digits in a new Morning Consult poll on Tuesday, marking the latest sign of his campaign's growing support since launching in November.

Twelve percent of Democratic primary voters supported Bloomberg in the poll, putting the former New York City mayor above former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 7 percent, businessman Andrew Yang at 5 percent and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) at 3 percent.

Former Vice President Joe Biden led the field with 29 percent support, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 23 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rounded out the poll's top three spots with 14 percent support.

The survey is the latest sign that Bloomberg's massive advertising campaign appears to be paying off in the polls. Bloomberg also appears to be making inroads among lawmakers, scoring his fifth congressional endorsement on Monday.

The Morning Consult survey was conducted Jan. 20–26 and is based on 17,836 surveys with Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/480236-bloomberg-hits-double-digits-in-new-national-poll

[beachbumbob]

1. bloomberg is a non-entity in this nomination process. IF HE cares, all this wasted money is

better spent in getting democrats elected in Texas, Georgia, NC and SC and make the GOP a permanent minority party.

Too much ego I guesss

[MineralMan]

3. Actually, he is not a non-entity. He just is skipping the unimportant

early primaries. He's a very smart man, who is spending his money where it matters. You'll see.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Yes!!

[beachbumbob]

7. He is a non-entity and only throwing money away on his ego.

he will win zero primaries as no true democrat will vote for a republican in a democratic primary for president.

[MineralMan]

10. You're incorrect. He will win delegates in several primaries.

Just watch. He won't win any of them, but he'll win delegates. He will do better than you think, I'm certain.

Then, he'll be endorsing a candidate when it's clear he won't be the nominee. He's smart. He knows that.

Who do you suppose he'll endorse? Who will his delegates vote for?

Think on a larger scale. That's what I recommend.

[stopbush]

11. I would vote for Bloomberg - who was a lifelong D before he switched to R to run

for Mayor of NYC - before I would vote for Sanders, who refuses to be a D outside of when he runs for POTUS.

[liskddksil]

12. A life-long Dem that supported George W. Bush, Scott Brown, Susan Collins, Pat Toomey?

Doesn't sound like much of Democrat to me.

[left-of-center2012]

4. okie dokie smokie

[Politicub]

8. His money is not wasted. His ads are ruthless in their critiques of Trump and how he's

damaging the country.

I'm glad he's in the race. He is doing important work with his wealth.

[squirecam]

14. His ads are

All vs trump. Not Dems.

That’s fine by me.

[MineralMan]

2. The Dark Horse Rides!

Watch for more of this as we start looking at Super Tuesday instead of Weakish Monday.

[Baclava]

6. Waiting in the wings for Biden to stumble in early states, thats always been his plan

Then he rides in on his white horse on Super Tuesday to save the day.

[MineralMan]

9. No, I don't think that's his plan.

In the first place, Biden's not going to stumble. He'll exit the first four primaries with more delegates than anyone else, thanks to South Carolina. Iowa and New Hampshire will divide up their delegates among four candidates, and SC will go for Biden.

Judging by Bloomberg's ads, many of which I see daily on the evening broadcast network news, he's not really running for the nomination. At some point, he'll drop out and endorse someone. Guess who that will be, if you can...

[MH1]

13. I doubt there will be any major "stumble" by Biden. Too many people are hungry

for a candidate JUST LIKE their image of Biden.

If by stumble you mean a very minor stumble that just takes someone to toss him a few delegates to sew it up - yup, Bloomberg could help there, and probably will. I don't see that as a bad thing.

[DCofVA]

15. Well, well, well...

I wonder if Pete still thinks the influence of money in our political process isn’t a big part of the problem. I would call this poetic justice but, I still think it would be a disaster if Bloomberg were the nominee.