NEW national NBC News/WSJ poll: • Joe Biden: 26% • Sen. Warren: 19% • Sen. Harris: 13% • Sen. Sanders: 13% • Mayor Buttigieg: 7% • Beto O’Rourke: 2% • Andrew Yang: 2%
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., lead the Democratic presidential field, according to the nationalBiden gets the support of 26 percent of voters who say they will participate in next year’s Democratic primaries or caucuses, while 19 percent back Warren.
New candidate Tom Steyer didn’t enter the race until July 9, and the survey didn’t test support for the billionaire activist. “Every result looks so meaningful, so significant. And in truth, it is only July 2019,” cautioned Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
And among these voters, Biden holds a substantial lead , followed by Harris , Buttigieg and Sanders . That’s compared with 45 percent who believe defeating Trump is more important, and they break Biden , Warren , Harris , Buttigieg and Sanders .Additionally, the poll finds that more than 7-in-10 Democratic primary voters favor a single-payer health care system in which all Americans get their health insurance from one government plan financed in part by taxes.
Among all voters, 21 percent support beginning impeachment now; another 27 percent want more hearings; and 50 percent believe the country should move on.Fifty-one percent of Democratic primary voters say they either watched or listened to some of the first two presidential debates, and another 29 percent say they paid close attention to the news coverage of them.
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