Donald Trump Is Rapidly Gaining on Joe Biden in the Polls
Bernie Sanders has been able to withstand Donald Trump's onslaught of attacks even as Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton before him, is watching his lead collapse.
Joe Biden pauses as he speaks during the AARP and Des Moines Register Iowa Presidential Candidate Forum at Drake University on July 15, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa.Justin Sullivan / Getty
Joe Biden’s advantage over Bernie Sanders in head-to-head polling against Trump has collapsed.
Biden’s margin of victory against Trump has plummeted from a rolling average of 10 in mid-October to 4 at the end of January. That’s the same margin that Bernie Sanders wins against Trump, based on polling aggregated by Real Clear Politics. The two perform so similarly against Trump that Sanders has actually outperformed Biden in recent head-to-heads.
These numbers tell the story of a Biden campaign that stayed above the fray for most of 2019 — only to falter in October. That’s when Trump unleashed
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