August 28, 2019 10:32 AM UTC

Can Joe Biden Be Stopped?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Two new polls out today show former vice president Joe Biden pulling away in the Democratic presidential primary race, as Politico reports:

Thirty-two percent of likely Democratic voters favor Biden as the party’s pick to take on President Donald Trump in next year’s election, according to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren ranks in second place with 14 percent, followed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with 12 percent. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and California Sen. Kamala Harris both received 6 percent. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who polled at 3 percent, was the only other candidate to garner more than 2 percent support.

Biden similarly dominated a Quinnipiac University poll published later Wednesday morning, again achieving 32 percent support among Democratic voters and independent voters who lean Democratic.

Both of these latest polls show Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont now trailing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who continues to work her way into the #2 spot while both Warren and Biden pull support away from Sanders and the rest of the pack. In an Emerson poll of Colorado voters released last week, Sanders was narrowly ahead of Biden with Warren trailing them by single digits.

The sum of all available data today confirms again a consolidating three-way race between Biden, Warren, and Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination: with Joe Biden the candidate to beat, Bernie Sanders with sagging but still strong built-in support, and Elizabeth Warren coming on strong–and ready to capitalize on either nominal frontrunner’s emerging weakness.

And there’s plenty of time yet for these numbers to move.