Former Vice President Joe Biden, long the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary, fell to third place in a new national poll from George Washington University, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued her climb in the standings, taking first in the poll. Sen. Bernie Sanders took second.
Warren led with 28%, followed by Sanders with 21% and Biden with 18%. No other candidate scored double digits: Sen. Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete Buttigieg each took 5%. The Washington Post notes that the poll was in the field from Sept. 26 to 30, which means that “respondents were probably aware of Biden’s entanglement in the Trump-Ukraine drama but didn’t know about Sanders’s heart attack, which was revealed after the poll ended.”
Biden’s “entanglement” is, of course, overwhelmingly a product of attacks by Team Trump. But in any case, Warren had been overtaking him in the polls before that blew up.
The new poll shows Warren continuing her strong showing with very liberal voters as she gains with liberal voters and with black voters, though Biden continues to have leads with black voters and moderate and conservative voters.