Bernie Sanders Takes National Double-Digit Lead In Democratic Race

Bernie Sanders is still on the rise, while nearly every one of his competitors continues to fall in the polls. The exceptions are Michael Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar who have enjoyed a rise in their numbers – although Klobuchar is still trailing with little to no path to the nomination. Bernie is the person to beat, and it doesn’t look like any of the other candidates have any idea how to do that. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well folks, we got some new polls yesterday and they show that Bernie Sanders now has a commanding lead nationally among all the Democrats running for president. Bernie Sanders now leads them by double digits, clocking in at 31% of the overall support in this latest national poll. The person in number two however, is no longer Joe Biden. At 19% number two is Michael Bloomberg. Now Bernie is still 12 points ahead of him in this poll and Bernie has risen nine points since this poll was last conducted in December. Biden is number three at 15%, his support has fallen nine points since December. Elizabeth Warren is number four. She has 12%, she's down five points since December. Klobuchar is next at 9%, she is up four and then there's Buttigieg who rounds out at the bottom with 8%, down 13% since December. Now I'm going to talk about Bernie and Bloomberg and Biden and all of that, but I want to focus on Buttigieg for just a minute here because this is actually remarkable that he has lost 13 percentage points since December. Is now at the bottom losing to Amy Klobuchar in spite of the fact that he had very strong showings in both Iowa and New Hampshire, he did exceptionally well.

I mean, he tied with Bernie in terms of delegates because he did so well. So why is it that Bernie is rising and Buttigieg is apparently in a free fall at this point? Maybe it's because the actual support for Buttigieg isn't quite real. And what I mean by that is, sure the guy can go to these exceptionally white States and do very well, but beyond the whiteness in this country, Buttigieg just simply is not making a connection. I mean, the man has repeatedly lied about the support that he is getting from African Americans, happened again just the other day. That's not good. He doesn't poll well with Hispanics, doesn't poll well with African Americans. People aren't buying what he's selling mostly because they don't even know what he's selling. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is actually surging with African American voters and with Hispanic voters. He is now second to Biden in African American voter support. However, he is now within the margin of error enough to consider this a statistical tie and that was the group of voters that establishment Democrats had told us just a few months ago, Bernie Sanders is never going to win that group. He is never going to get support outside of the white community. He is never going to get support among women.

Except Bernie's now leading among women too.

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