Warren Holds Slim Lead Over Sanders In Iowa Biden In Fourth

(The Hill) Rachel Frazin 11/01/19 07:52 AM A new poll shows a tight race in Iowa with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) leading the early voting state and former Vice President Joe Biden slipping to fourth. The New York TimesSiena College poll released Friday showed Warren with 22 percent support from likely Democratic caucus goers Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with 19 percent South Bend Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) with 18 percent and Biden with 17 percent. All four fall close to the polls margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points. No other candidate was near the top four who were distantly trailed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) with 4 percent Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with 3 percent and entrepreneur Andrew Yang with 3 percent. The survey is among a series of recent polls showing Warren leading the field in Iowa. A RealClearPolitics average of polls showed the senator ahead of the former vice president by an average of 5 percentage points Friday morning. Buttigiegs rise in the poll puts him much closer to the front-runners in Iowa than in national polls. He is in fourth place in the nationwide RealClearPolitics average of polls trailing Sanders by 9 points. Biden said in an MSNBC interview this week that he plans to do very well" in Iowa and New Hampshire amid questions as to whether he can win the early caucus and primary states. I plan on doing very well in both those he said Tuesday. Ive been ahead in Iowa. Ive been ahead in South Carolina. Im ahead in all the national polls with the occasional one that pops up thats different. Researchers surveyed 439 likely Iowa Democratic caucus goers from Oct. 25 to 30.