Senator Bernie Sanders has the best chance of defeating President Donald Trump in the Texas general election, according to a new poll. However, former Vice President Joe Biden took first place in the overall poll.
President Donald Trump may still be leading the political polls in Texas, but data released Wednesday show Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is actually the biggest threat to Trump winning the state, although former Vice President Joe Biden is still the current Democratic front runner in Texas.
Biden did, however, pick up the win for the overall poll as 28 percent of potential Democratic voters in the Texas primary supported Biden. Sanders came in second place with 26 percent while Senator Elizabeth Warren came in a distant third place with 13 percent, a full 13 points behind Sanders.reached out to the Sanders campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Trump lost the 2016 Texas Republican primary to Texas Senator Ted Cruz by a wide margin. Cruz wound up with almost 44 percent of the vote while Trump came in second with only 26.7 percent. But after Cruz's popularity spiraled, culminating in a defeat in the Indiana primary, Cruz suspended his campaign.Texas voters think Senator Bernie Sanders has the best chance of defeating President Donald Trump in the presidential election according to a poll released Wednesday by the Texas Lyceum.
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