With more than two years before the next presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden is the first favorite to represent the Democrats and try to overthrow President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a new poll.

Biden was the choice of 32% of Democrats in a Harvard CAPS / Harris poll June that was obtained by The Hill. Hillary Clinton, the party's flag bearer in 2016, came in second with 18% and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Third with 16%.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mbad., Was fourth with 10 percent of the vote.

Biden, who would have been 77 on election day in 2020, has been one of Trump's most virulent critics since the 2016 campaign. At least twice, the former vice president said that He wanted to be back in high school so he could physically confront the president with his comments on women. (Trump replied in a tweet that Biden would "come down fast and loud, crying all the time" if they were fighting.)

Although Mrs. Clinton has given no indication that she intends to run again, Biden and Sanders have not ruled out a race in 2020.

Biden: If it was high school, I would take trump 'behind the gym'.

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Biden envisioned running in 2016, but he decided not to go because he did not think he could defeat Clinton and because he was still in mourning after losing his son Beau Biden to cancer. brain.

Of the other Democrats included in the poll, The Hill reported that Senator Cory Booker, DN.J., got 6%, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg got 3%, Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Obtained 2%, while Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, DN.Y., and the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, each obtained 1%.

Another 12 percent of respondents said their preferred candidate was not listed.

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