Joe Biden leads Trump by 10 percentage points as his advantage among Democratic candidates continues to shrink
- Former Vice President Joe Biden is the most likely candidate to beat President Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup
- In a new Fox News Poll, Biden earned 49 per cent support among registered voters compared to Trump’s 39 per cent
- Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders were the only two candidate that beat Trump outside the margin of error in the poll
- Another poll showed Biden with 55 per cent support among voters in 18 early primary and caucus states
- Sanders fell out of his usual second place spot, and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris jumped ahead of him
Former Vice President Joe Biden is still the most likely Democrat to beat President Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup.
Biden is leading the president by 10 percentage points, according to a new Fox News Poll released Sunday morning, which is outside of the margin of error.
In the national poll, Biden earned 49 per cent support from registered voters compared to Trump’s 39 per cent. Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was the only other Democratic candidate that would beat Trump outside the margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Donald Trump by 10 percentage points in a new Fox News Poll
Biden earned 49 per cent support from registered voters compared to Trump’s 39 per cent
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the only other candidate, of the 24 running, that won in a head-to-head matchup against Trump outside the margin of error
Among the 1,001 voters surveyed, 49 per cent said they support Sanders, nine percentage points ahead of Trump’s 40 per cent, which is only one percentage difference than Biden’s lead of the president.
Earlier this year, Biden had a much larger lead among the 23 other Democrats running in the party’s primary race for 2020. His lead has slowly shrunk as other candidates gained more prominence and take up more of the vote in polls.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg also beat the president in head-to-head matchups, but all of them won within the margin of error.
Warren has a two-point edge over Trump 43 per cent to 41 per cent. Harris and Butgigieg both are up by one point, 42-41 and 41-40 respectively.
None of the other candidates beat Trump in the poll.
In another poll released Sunday morning, Sens. Kamala Harris (left) and Elizabeth Warren (right) beat out Sanders among Democratic voters even though he usually secures second place behind Biden
At this same point in the 2016 election cycle, Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton was ahead of Trump by 17 points.
Another poll released Sunday morning from CBS News shows that Biden is still holding his lead among the crowded Democratic field of candidates.
Among the 16,624 registered voters surveyed from 18 early primary and caucus states, 55 per cent say they favor Biden to be the Democratic nominee.
This poll yielded a more rare result of Sanders falling out of the No. 2 position, which he usually holds solid, to fourth place.
Warren earned 49 per cent support and 45 per cent support Harris, while the more progressive candidate Sanders earned 43 per cent support.