Progressives prefer Biden to Sanders in hypothetical 2020 Trump matchup, new poll shows
Registered voters who say they have a "strong liberal" ideology prefer former Vice President Joe Biden to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a hypothetical 2020 matchup against President Trump, according to a new poll.
The Hill-HarrisX daily poll, conducted Dec. 16-17, found that 83 percent of self-identified progressive prefer Biden, compared to 75 percent who picked Sanders. Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) was the top choice for 66 percent of liberal respondents.
Among all voters, Biden defeated Trump 42 percent to 36 percent, outside the poll's 3.1 percent sampling margin of error. Sanders edged the president 38 percent to 37 percent, and O'Rourke lost 30 percent to 37 percent. Biden also fared best among voters who said they lean liberal or are moderate.
(The poll did not measure how other potential Democratic candidates might do in a contest with Trump.)
Name recognition is considered the predominant factor this early in the election cycle -- former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the front runner in 2008 before losing the Democratic nomination to President Obama -- but establishing credibility and being seen as a first-tier candidate who can appeal to various demographic groups is also vitally important.
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It doesn't comport at all with the Harvard-Harris poll showing that Sanders is the most popular politician in the known universe.
