Recent polls appear to have narrowed down the once oversaturated field of 2020 Democratic hopefuls to two:
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The data show that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has fallen back to a distant third place.
Fox News reports,
Warren – the populist senator who’s pushed out one progressive policy proposal after another – stands at 27 percent among Democratic voters and independents who lean Democratic in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday morning, with the former vice president commanding 25 percent. Warren’s two-point edge is well within the survey’s margin of error.
Warren has surged 8 percentage points since Quinnipiac’s previous national poll, which was conducted late last month, with Biden -- long considered the frontrunner in the race -- dropping seven points.
Sanders, the independent populist longtime lawmaker who’s making his second straight White House bid, stands at 16 percent in the new survey, basically unchanged from last month.
Other polls, including a Monmouth University survey and a USA Today/Suffolk University survey released Tuesday, demonstrate similar findings.
The next Democratic primary debate is set to take place in Westerville, Ohio on Oct. 15 and will be co-hosted by CNN and The New York Times.
A new Rasmussen General Election poll released on Wednesday shows Trump ahead of Biden by four percentage points.