Biden, the Democratic front-runner, leads Trump by 12 points in an Investors Business Daily/TIPP poll, with the former vice president supported by 54 percent of poll respondents, The Hill reported.
The margin is a 1 point drop for Biden over Trump between August and July, when Biden held a 13-point margin over Trump in the same poll.
Other top Democratic 2020 contenders, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), also hold leads over Trump, albeit by single digits.
Sanders was supported by 49 percent of poll respondents, compared to 45 percent for Trump, while Warren and Harris led 49 percent to 46 percent for Trump, in a hypothetical general election contest.
Both Biden and Sanders held strong leads over the president among independent voters, according to the poll, with both men winning more than 50 percent of independent voters in head-to-head match-ups with Trump. Warren, meanwhile, struggled in that demographic, winning the support of just 47 percent of independent voters to 45 percent for Trump.
Also, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill, Biden leads the pack of Democratic presidential candidates, but Warren is on the rise.
The survey shows Biden in first place with 32 percent support among Democrats, followed by Sanders at 16 percent, both falling slightly from the previous poll.
But Warren isn’t far behind. The new poll pegs her support at 13 percent — a 5-point jump since the last Harvard CAPS/Harris poll was conducted in the wake of the July Democratic presidential debates in Detroit.
That places her third, replacing Harris who came in fourth place with 7 percent support in the latest poll. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) tied for fifth place with 4 percent support.
Only two other candidates notched above 1 percent in the survey: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), with 3 percent, and former tech executive Andrew Yang, with 2 percent.
While Biden still holds a comfortable lead over his closest competitors, his support is down 2 points from the last Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. No candidate gained more in the latest survey than Warren, who has been steadily climbing in public polls for months.
“Biden continues in our poll to have a steady lead above his rivals but that lead in the low 30s is no guarantee of the nomination,” Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, said, adding, “He has to show some movement soon as others are gaining in excitement and momentum. There may be scores of candidates in the race but only a few of them are getting to double digits.”
Still, Biden remains the candidate that voters see as having the best chance of defeating Trump in 2020. Thirty-six percent of respondents pointed to the vice president as the most formidable challenger to the president, while 13 percent chose Sanders and 8 percent picked Warren.
Source: en.farsnews.com
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