Former Vice President Joe Biden leads his two nearest Democratic presidential primary rivals, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), by huge margins in a new poll of South Carolina.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday found Biden with the support of 33 percent of likely voters, while Warren trailed 20 points behind with 13 percent and Sanders followed her closely with 11 percent.
No other candidate registered double-digit support in the poll, with South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg coming in fourth place with the support of 6 percent of likely voters.
Following shortly behind Buttigieg in the poll at 5 percent was billionaire Tom Steyer, a later entrant to the 2020 race who nevertheless was polling higher than more established candidates such as Democratic Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.).
South Carolina’s primary has remained a stronghold of support for Biden, who has fallen behind Sanders and Warren in polls of other early voting or high-delegate states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and California.
Quinnipiac’s poll surveyed 768 likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina between Nov. 13 and Nov. 17, with a margin of error of 4.8 percentage points.