Reuters/Ipsos Survey: 2020 Democratic Primary Tracker (12/20/2019)
Washington, DC, December 20, 2019 – The latest public opinion poll from Reuters/Ipsos shows that the race for the Democratic nomination has the same three frontrunners as last week. Former Vice President Joe Biden takes the lead, with 18% of Democrats and independents saying he would have their vote if the election were held today. He is followed by Senator Bernie Sanders (15%) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (10%). Despite his late entry into the race, Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg performs better than many long-standing candidates with 5% of the vote share, just a point ahead of Mayor Pete Buttigieg (4%). All other candidates would receive 2% of the vote share or less.
If their preferred candidate were to drop out of the race, the same top three candidates would garner the most support. Biden is the second choice among 17% of Democrats and independents, followed by Sanders and Warren (16% each). Buttigieg and Bloomberg would each take 8% of the second-choice vote, followed by Senator Cory Booker and Senator Amy Klobuchar, each with 4%.
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About the Study
These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between December 18-19, 2019 on behalf of Thomson Reuters. For this survey, a sample of 1,117 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. The sample includes 481 Democrats, 408 Republicans, and 139 independents. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error. The poll also has a credibility interval ± 5.1 percentage points for Democrats, ± 5.5 percentage points for Republicans, and ± 9.5 percentage points for independents.
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