Posted on 02/24/2020 5:40:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders lead the latest South Carolina poll of Democratic voters, garnering double-digit support that far outpaces the rest of the pack.
Support appears to have collapsed for climate activist and billionaire Tom Steyer, who had been polling in the low double digits after saturating the Palmetto State with campaign advertising. Steyer now polls at just 7%.
The numbers were released by Public Policy Polling and show Biden with a robust lead over Sanders with 36% to 21%.
“PPP’s newest poll of Democratic primary voters in South Carolina finds it looking like a two-person race, with only Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders reaching double digits in their support,” Public Policy Polling Director Tom Jensen said.
The poll is good news for Biden, who had declared South Carolina's Feb. 29 primary a “firewall” for his campaign and will follow his second-place but distant finish behind Sanders in the Feb. 22 Nevada caucuses.
“The key to Biden’s success continues to be strong support from African Americans. He gets 50% to 21% for Sanders, with no one else polling above 6%,“ Jensen said.
The poll shows the remaining Democrats on the ballot in South Carolina trailing far behind Biden and Sanders.
The survey found Sen. Elizabeth Warren with 8% support, Pete Buttigieg with 7%, Tulsi Gabbard with 6%, and Amy Klobuchar with just 3%.
Sanders leads Biden with voters under 45, but Biden enjoys a 32-point lead among seniors with 40% to 8%.
The poll found Klobuchar with just 1% of the all-important African American vote.
“Plenty could happen to change things in the next five days, but, for now, it looks like Biden’s position might be shoring up a little bit in South Carolina,” Jensen said.
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I’d rather have Biden than Sanders. There won’t be a bunch of rabid leftists lining up to vote for him.
I’d rather have Sanders than Biden. Biden is a milquetoast candidate that Fake News can fly top cover for. This election is supposedly going to be decided in the suburbs and I’d rather Trump faced a rabid socialist there.
I can. Bernie “coalition” has little support among blacks. As the primaries states move to states with large black population Bernie won’t do as well.
However with proportional delegatesnot winner take all he’ll still likely be in the delegate lead
Last Commie standing?
Yep.
He’s not on ballot
Barely Anyone Shows Up to Joe Biden’s South Carolina Rally as His “Firewall” Crumbles
Ruh, Roh!
Agreed—Sanders will tell the suburban women he will steal all their stuff.
Biden will just mumble incoherently.
I’m voting for Biden Sat
So now we have two polls with wildly different results.
One thing is for sure—Biden needs to bring a phone booth with him—he will feel more comfortable with one of those around, and his crowds will be able to fit inside it!
I’m just looking forward to rioting at the Milwaukee RAT convention that will make Chicago ‘68 look like a Fourth of July picnic.
Anything that promotes chaos among the RATs is a good thing.
“With Burney’s previous heart problem, a sudden bout of Arkancide would draw no suspicion from the MSM.”
They just need someone with the Wuhanic Plague to cough on him.
In a debate with Old Joe, all Trump has to do is ask him what years his son served as attorney general.
Is a damn shame we have such a Democrat ass kissing media, or one of the so called journalists would have asked him that already.
‘Bernbag’. *snicker*
Every day they can see Senator Bernie Sanders growing like a Coronavirus on the Dim Party.
The Dim establishment thought Bloomberg was the vaccine to kill off CoronaSanders. But the best laid plans of rats and men went astray. Bloomberg only helped spread the virus as it became obvious even to the MSLSD crowd that CoronaSanders is unstoppable through legitimate means.
Yes, this is the dem primary. No Republican primary in SC this go round.
"I'm the comeback kid!"
C’mon Joe! Win one primary before they force you out.
the time’s rapidly approaching when pistol pete will have to hang up his spurs ...
“If bernbag is 50 delegates short and bite-me biden is right behind him, the DNC should award the nomination to the hair sniffer, with the super delegates, on the 2nd ballot.”
the Dem primaries have just gotten started, and there’s still a few thousand more delegates to be awarded, plus the super-delegates aren’t enough to put anyone over the top who has won less than 41% of the primary delegates ..
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