Fourteen-point leap since August: Buttigieg leads Democrats in Iowa
US 2020 Democratic candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg is leading his rivals in the key state of Iowa less than a year before the election day, a poll shows.
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was given support by 22 percent of the likely caucusgoers in the Hawkeye State, according to a Monmouth University poll.
He was followed by former Vice President Joe Biden at 19 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in the third place with 18 percent support.
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Buttigieg has leaped 14 percent in the same poll conducted in August when, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was leading with 13 percent.
“Buttigieg is emerging as a top pick for a wide variety of Iowa Democrats,” said Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “While he has made nominally bigger gains among older caucusgoers, you really can’t pigeonhole his support to one particular group. He is doing well with voters regardless of education or ideology.”
Another significant change in the poll was the fall of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) from 12 percent in August to 3 percent in November.
“Iowa caucusgoers are used to changing their minds up to the last minute. In fact, some probably even look forward to waiting until caucus night to settle on a candidate,” Murray said. “This all translates to a race that is extremely fluid and will probably stay that way up to Feb. 3.”
Only 28 percent of the respondents said they had made their decision about who is to face the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump. In the 20200 presidential election.
According to an average of the polls, Biden is currently leading Democrats nationally with 26.8 percent and is followed by Warren with 20.8 and Sanders with 17.0 percent.
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