Poll: Biden crushing Sanders in South Carolina

Joe Biden has an enormous lead over Bernie Sanders and the rest of the Democratic presidential hopefuls in South Carolina, according to a Monmouth University ballot revealed Thursday.

The poll, launched two days before the essential first-in-the-South main, exhibits Biden with an advantage of 20 proportion points over Sanders, 36 % to 16 %.

Billionaire self-funder Tom Steyer, who has spent far extra money in South Carolina than some other candidate, is third, with 15 % — the one other candidate in double-digits or even approaching the essential 15-percent threshold to earn statewide delegates.

A powerful victory in South Carolina would give Biden much needed momentum going into Super Tuesday after his abysmal showings in Iowa and New Hampshire and his distant second-place end in Nevada.

Biden is being propelled in South Carolina by African American voters, who make up a majority of the state's Democratic main citizens. He's the first selection of 45 % of black voters, the ballot exhibits — that's rather more than are backing Steyer (17 %) or Sanders (13 %). That would bode properly for Biden in a handful of southeastern states with giant black populations also holding primaries subsequent month, together with Alabama and North Carolina on March 3, Mississippi on March 10, and Georgia on March 24.

The Monmouth College poll was carried out Feb. 23-25 — principally earlier than Tuesday night time’s debate in Charleston, S.C., and completely earlier than Biden earned the endorsement of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a longtime black political determine in South Carolina who represents considered one of solely two Democratic-held congressional districts within the state.

After the top candidates are three others who have struggled to earn vital help from black voters: Elizabeth Warren at eight %, Pete Buttigieg at 6 % and Amy Klobuchar at 4 %. Warren Massachusetts senator is has the help of solely 5 % of African American voters, however that’s greater than Buttigieg’s 2 % or Klobuchar’s zero %.

Whereas Sanders cobbled collectively a cross-section of Democrats to win a blowout victory in Nevada last week, there are signs he is struggling to reassemble that coalition in South Carolina. The Vermont senator lags 25 points behind Biden among female voters, falls 40 factors behind Biden amongst seniors, and trails Biden by 24 factors among those who describe their political ideologies as average or conservative.

Biden, meanwhile, leads virtually across the board. He’s still the top candidate amongst voters youthful than 50, main Sanders 31 % to 18 %; Steyer is at 16 %. Amongst voters who describe themselves as liberal, Biden is at 33 %, to 24 % for Sanders, 16 % for Warren and 13 % for Steyer.

The ballot surveyed 454 doubtless Democratic main voters, sampled from an inventory of voters who participated in at the least one main or basic election in 2018 or 2016. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.6 proportion factors.

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