Can Joe Biden Be Stopped?

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by: Colorado Pols

Joe F’ing Biden (D).

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.

11 thoughts on “Can Joe Biden Be Stopped?”

harrydoby says:

August 28, 2019 at 10:43 am

As with Hick, if Biden gets the nomination, he has my vote. The alternative in both races is too horrible to contemplate. But we're a long way until the next nominating convention. I'm just glad we have so many strong, qualified people offering their service to the nation. Whichever Democrat wins the election will have a strong pool of talent to choose from to support their administration.

11 years ago today:

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1. Voyageur says:
  
  August 28, 2019 at 10:45 am
  
  What Harry said.
  
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2. bullshit! says:
  
  August 28, 2019 at 10:58 am
  
  Of course I'll back Joe Biden or whoever wins the nomination. But I'm supporting Elizabeth Warren and she's where all the momentum is.
  
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  1. harrydoby says:
    
    August 28, 2019 at 11:21 am
    
    Exactly. I'm rooting for Harris/Buttigieg
    
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  2. MADCO says:
    
    August 29, 2019 at 9:06 am
    
    September momentum works best in Major League baseball.
    
    6 ms from primaries/caucuses and 10 months from a nominee?
    the big numbers really are not paying attention yet. Except for Judge Moore – next Senator from Alabama.
    
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JohnInDenver says:

August 28, 2019 at 8:13 pm

Humorous to me that the oldest 3 "major" candidates are the ones on top. I still got concerns, but also have 6 months before I need to turn in a ballot.

Gillibrand is the latest drop — she'll go back to DC and New York and wonder what happened.

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1. MADCO says:
  
  August 29, 2019 at 9:07 am
  
  She knows exactly what happened.
  She'll be in Milwaukee in June executing the next phase.
  
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OpenSpace says:

August 28, 2019 at 10:12 pm

Silly to think in August of 19 we can nail down anything that happens in 2020. Front runners at this point more often than not fade by the time Iowa rolls around.

Would not be surprised to see Warren, Sanders and Harris split the progressive vote, letting Buttigieg win Iowa ( Biden has run before in Iowa twice and I think he’s still looking for his first vote there – if Trump looks as weak then as he does now, Biden will likely fade again )

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1. Voyageur says:
  
  August 28, 2019 at 10:54 pm
  
  Harris is more a moderate than a progressive. But I agree it is silly to annoint winners six months before the first voters speak.
  
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2. MADCO says:
  
  August 29, 2019 at 9:14 am
  
  Well… here's some things that will happen in 2020:
  (bookmark this and we'll see if I was even close)
  
  – Tokyo Olympics- humans will fly
  – mass shootings in America- no new gun storage or background check laws
  – Iowa caucus will get a ton of press, but not all for the right reasons
  – Super Tuesday will favor California
  – Solar power will get even cheaper
  – commercial available to consumers electric pick up truck, new ev from Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, KIA, VW, and Ford
  – average temps warmer, average sea level higher (Miami will be underwater at low tide)
  
  Cubs will win 105 games and the World Series.
  
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Pseudonymous says:

August 29, 2019 at 10:36 am

Sure. He can stop himself.

As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story

Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall. A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Kunar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into “godforsaken country” to recognize the remarkable heroism of a Navy captain.

Some told him it was too risky, but Biden said he brushed off their concerns. “We can lose a vice president,” he said. “We can’t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.”

[…]

“This is the God’s truth,” Biden had said as he told the story. “My word as a Biden.”

Except almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect.

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