NBC/WSJ Poll: Biden Leads Dem 2020 Field Warrens Support Grows

(NBC News) Mark Murray Sept. 18 2019 01:48 Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren D-Mass. continue to top the Democratic 2020 presidential field after last weeks debate in a race for the nomination that breaks along ideological and racial lines according to a national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday. The survey also shows that Warren has the advantage in enthusiasm and that she gets the most second-choice support. Biden leads the overall horserace with backing from 31 percent of Democratic primary voters (up 5 points since July) while Warren gets 25 percent (up 6 points). Theyre followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt. at 14 percent (up 1 point) South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is at 7 percent (unchanged) and Sen. Kamala Harris D-Calif. at 5 percent (down 8 points). Entrepreneur Andrew Yang gets support from 4 percent of Democratic primary voters and Sens. Amy Klobuchar D-Minn. and Cory Booker D-N.J. both get 2 percent. No other Democratic presidential candidate gets more than 1 percent support in the poll which was conducted Sept. 13-16 immediately after Thursdays debate in Houston. So despite all of the debates and all the campaigning the candidates who gained ground since July were the Top 3 of Biden Warren and Sanders says Republican pollster Bill McInturff who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart and his firm. The race is more solid for the front-runners than it was in July" McInturff said. Important however only 9 percent of all Democratic respondents say their minds are definitely made up. As a result these numbers could very well change between now and next years early nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.