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Joe Biden leading 2020 Dem pack despite accusations
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April 9, 2019
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1:26Now PlayingFormer Vice President Joe Biden leads the Democratic pack of contenders for the White House despite a week of accusations of improper touching and kissing from seven women, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll released Monday.
Biden won 28 percent support in the survey, compared to 20 percent for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Biden, who has yet to formally enter the race, and Sanders were well ahead of the rest of the candidates in the poll of 660 registered voters who identified as Democrats or independents.
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) placed third with 8 percent support, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) won 7 percent.
Warren was followed by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with 6 percent and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) with 4 percent.
Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., was named by 3 percent of respondents, while Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) received 3 percent support. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) had 2 percent.
Biden enjoyed a strong lead among respondents who identified as Democrats. The former vice president was the top choice of 36 percent of party loyalists compared to Sanders's 19 percent. Harris was the third-most popular choice among Democratic voters with 9 percent.
Sanders was the top choice of voters who identified as independents, with 21 percent support to Biden's 19 percent. O'Rourke was the pick of 10 percent of independent voters, while Warren was named by 9 percent.
"That Bernie Sanders and his scary democratic socialist platform hasn't scared away people who self-identify as independents tells me perhaps there's a lot more left-leaning independents than we discuss generally," Sophia Tesfaye, the deputy politics editor at Salon, said on Monday's broadcast of "What America's Thinking."
"We discuss independents as though they're moderate, more conservative, but there's a lot of disillusioned former Democrats out there," she added.
The survey found something of a gap between older and younger voters, with Biden doing better with the former and Sanders doing better with the latter.
--Matthew Sheffield
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