Poll: Biden loses 5 points, while Warren passes Sanders

Former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary has been cut in half, according to a new poll Wednesday. Although Biden still retains control of leadership status, the CNN survey reveals that Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are becoming more and more menacing. on him.

the CNN Survey shows a 5 percentage point decrease in Biden support over the last three weeks, from 29% to 24%. The National Elderly Democrat poll also saw Warren jump Sanders into second place, although both are still within the sampling error margin of 18% and 17% respectively.

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The latest figures arrive just over 24 hours before the top three candidates find themselves on the same stage for the first time in the primary competition. Thursday's debate in Houston, in particular, will feature Biden and Warren together for the first time, a dynamic that is attracting more and more attention as Warren continues his steady progress in the polls.

Wednesday's study reveals a growing gap between high-level candidates and the rest of the pack, despite the abandonment of three candidates in the race in recent weeks.

The 17 percent of Sanders is more than double the next candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, whose polls are largely stalled after taking off after Biden resigned in the first debate. Harris garnered 8% support, followed by mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, in Indiana, up 6%, compared with 5% for both candidates last month . Former representative Beto O'Rourke also gained 2 points in the survey, at 5%, while the remaining candidates were surveyed at 2% or less.

Despite some erosion of Biden's lead, the CNN poll also indicates that his campaign's recent efforts to sell the candidate as the most eligible in the primary field could be spurred by voters' determination to overthrow President Donald Trump. .

Four out of ten Democratic voters said they wanted their party to nominate a presidential candidate with whom they agreed on major issues – the same as three weeks ago. But a majority, 55 percent, said the party should prioritize the appointment of the candidate most likely to remove Trump from office.

The survey revealed a less radical split between Democrats in terms of their potential candidate on the wrong side of the ideological spectrum: Forty-nine percent said they feared the Democratic candidate would be too liberal, while 41 percent said he feared the party names a candidate who was not liberal enough.

Wednesday's survey follows the National Democratic Committee's qualification guidelines for the party's primary debates, but it does not affect next month's debate, as each person reaching the 2% threshold is already qualified or has reached 2% in a previous CNN poll.

CNN's survey was conducted by telephone from September 5 to 9, with 1,639 adults, including a subset of 908 self-employed Democratic Democrats, registered to vote. The results of the sample of Democrat voters have a margin of error of sampling of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.