Joe Biden leads the 2020 Democratic presidential field in Iowa, according to a new poll that also suggests Pete Buttigieg is gaining significant traction with likely caucus-goers
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the 2020 Democratic presidential field in Iowa, according to a new poll released Thursday that also suggests Pete Buttigieg — a previously unknown, small-city mayor from Indiana — is gaining significant traction with likely caucus-goers.shows Biden, who hasn’t officially entered the race, is the first choice of roughly a quarter of likely caucusgoers, 27 percent. He’s followed by Sen.
Buttigieg still lags most of the other major candidates in name recognition, the poll shows. Nearly a quarter of caucusgoers, 24 percent, say they haven’t heard of the mayor of the nation’s 301st-largest city, compared to 3 percent who haven’t heard of Warren, 7 percent who haven’t heard of O’Rourke, 10 percent for Harris and 11 percent for Booker.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201904/2344/1155968404_6021220071001_6020982892001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"“Buttigieg’s current standing in the horse race is impressive given that nearly half of likely Democratic caucusgoers have yet to form an opinion of him,” said Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “He has one of the best positive to negative ratios in the field.
Biden, meanwhile, is running ahead of the pack despite a spate of news stories about physical contact with women who say the former vice president made them uncomfortable. But more than three-in-four caucus-goers, 78 percent, have a favorable opinion about Biden. Just 14 percent view him unfavorably.
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