New poll finds Biden leading Dem pack despite accusations

[brooklynite]

The Hill

Former vice president Joe Biden leads the Democratic pack of contenders for the White House despite a week of accusations of improper touching and kissing from seven women, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll released Monday.

Biden won 28 percent support in the survey, compared to 20 percent for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Biden, who has yet to formally enter the race, and Sanders were well ahead of the rest of the candidates in the poll of 660 registered voters who identified and Democrats or independents.

Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) placed third with 8 percent support while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) won 7 percent.
Warren was followed by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with 6 percent and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) with 4 percent.

Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was named by 3 percent of respondents while Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) won 2 percent.

[LakeArenal]

1. Happy to hear.

I am surprised at some of the other rankings.

But happy still.

[customerserviceguy]

3. This poll looks somewhat different

than most I've seen so far. Biden's lead is not nearly as much as it was on past polls, and I find it curious that Warren is doing much better here, and Buttigieg is doing a bit worse than other polls from the last week. And I don't believe that Gillibrand number at all.

If this one is true, then we have a problem if the vote is spread out among too many candidates.

[msongs]

4. poll is only valid in the 660 registered voters who were polled lol nt

[Loki Liesmith]

7. How many times did you take statistics?

[democratisphere]

8. Joe Biden is the very best we have and Joe is right where he needs to be at this time.

[Cha]

9. Good.

[BlueFlorida]

10. Even considering MOE

this is an eye-opening poll.

Sanders was polling higher in a 3-way and 2-way race and that means a lot of Sanders' supporters have fled to other candidates and are unlikely to come back to him.

[Gothmog]

11. Early State Democrats Stand With Biden As Touching Scandal Falls Flat

Link to tweet

Progressives and advisers to Bernie Sanders hoped that they could keep Biden out of the race with a scandal that centers around personal space. The scandal though never really dominated the news like they hoped it or accelerated enough to damage the former vice president’s potential candidacy. Biden is still leading in the way too early polling, and he has seen no erosion in his support since the touching scandal started.

The challenge that any Democratic candidate faces is that Joe Biden has deep roots and a huge national organization of party officials. Biden is beloved by the party rank and file, and it is going to take more than what his political adversaries tried to turn into a scandal to stop his candidacy.

After seeing the behavior of porn star paying off, Access Hollywood tape accused sexual assaulter Trump, Joe Biden’s behavior doesn’t rise to the level of disqualifying in the minds of many Democrats.

Democratic voters may choose a different nominee, but Joe Biden is showing why he is going to be hard to beat in 2020.