Former Vice President Joe Biden leads in a new Hill/HarrisX Democratic Preference poll, surging after his forceful performance in the South Carolina primary this past Saturday.
After steadily declining in the national poll for weeks following his lackluster showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, Biden received 28 percent in the March 1-2 survey, an 11 percentage point jump from last week.
Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dipped 5 points in the poll to 23 percent. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg trails at 20 percent.
Super Tuesday will be the first time Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, will be on the ballot. He skipped the first four contests.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has yet to turn in formidable results in the early voting contests, won 11 percent, a 3-point tick up from last week.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) received 2 percent support and 10 percent of voters are still unsure.
The poll was conducted nationally among registered voters prior to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Mnn.) announcing that she would be leaving the horse race. She received 3 percent.
This survey aligns with a slew of new data finding a significant surge in support for Biden ahead of tonight’s Super Tuesday contests where approximately one-third of all pledged the delegates will be up for grabs.
The Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted online among 453 registered Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters between March 1 and 2. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
—Gabriela Schulte
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