Joe Biden plunges 13 points in new national poll. He's now just behind Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

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The latest 2020 national poll from Monmouth University doesn't look good for former Vice President Joe Biden.

Monmouth's poll released on Monday shows Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tied at 20 percent, with Biden behind them at 19 percent. Given the poll's margin of error, that means the three candidates are effectively tied thanks to Biden taking a serious dive since a previous poll released by Monmouth in June.

In that June poll, which was released prior to the first two presidential debates, Biden was polling at 32 percent, but he has since plunged 13 points. Sanders and Warren, meanwhile, have improved by six percentage points and five percentage points, respectively. After Biden, there's a large gap before the next candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who polls at eight percentage points with no change from June.

This poll is certainly an outlier in the 2020 field, with other national polls showing Biden maintaining his lead in the race following the first two presidential debates. In fact, The Washington Post reports it's the first major national poll in which Biden doesn't have any sort of advantage over his 2020 opponents.

Monmouth's poll was conducted from Aug. 16-20 and is based on phone conversations with 298 registered voters nationally who identify as Democratic or lean Democratic. The margin of error is 5.7 percentage points. Read the full results at Monmouth. Brendan Morrow

anomalousgeometry on August 26th, 2019 at 19:43 UTC »

Anyone else think Sanders and Warren should hurry up and form like Voltron and just crush it already?

NoModerateRepublican on August 26th, 2019 at 18:42 UTC »

From Monmouth's report:

Biden has suffered an across the board decline in his support since June. He lost ground with white Democrats (from 32% to 18%) and voters of color (from 33% to 19%), among voters without a college degree (from 35% to 18%) and college graduates (from 28% to 20%), with both men (from 38% to 24%) and women (from 29% to 16%), and among voters under 50 years old (from 21% to 6%) as well as voters aged 50 and over (from 42% to 33%). Most of Biden’s lost support in these groups shifted almost equally toward Sanders and Warren.

Biden is polling at 6% among voters under 50. Guys...he's tied with Andrew Yang in that group.

xbettel on August 26th, 2019 at 18:16 UTC »

Sanders: 20% (+6) Warren: 20% (+5) Biden: 19% (-13)! Harris: 8% (-) Booker: 4% (+2) Buttigieg: 4% (-1) Yang: 3% (+1) Castro: 2% (+2) O’Rourke: 2% (-1) Williamson: 2% (+1)

Another nugget: 58% of Democrats said it was "very important" for the nominee to be someone who supports Medicare for All. 23% said it was somewhat important , 10% not important and 9% not sure