Bernie Sanders Gains On Hillary Clinton In Democratic Polls, As Scott Walker

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading fellow Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton by nine points in New Hampshire, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll. That number held steady when Biden was removed from the options, with Sanders at 49 percent and Clinton at 38 percent.

On Sunday, NBC News released a poll showing Sanders opening up a healthy lead over Clinton in the crucial state of New Hampshire. The NBC/Marist Poll additionally shows in that Clinton leads Sanders in Iowa, 38% to 27%, although that’s down from the 24-point benefit she enjoyed in Jul. New Hampshire holds the nation’s first presidential primary, after the Iowa caucus.

On the Republican side, front-runner Donald Trump has a 7-point lead in Iowa and tops the GOP field by 16 points in New Hampshire.

Draft Biden, a group urging him to put his name forward, said the poll showed “a deep desire among Democratic primary voters to have Vice-President Biden join the presidential race”. Biden garners 20 percent support in the Hawkeye State, which is double the support he had there in July. “It’s a contest of ideas, of policies, of how we present ourselves to the American people“, she said. According to the National HuffPost Pollster chart, which aggregates all publicly available national polls, Sanders is 22 points behind Clinton, but that margin has narrowed in August. In total since the February poll, Clinton is down 30 points in Iowa. With Sanders closing in on Clinton in Iowa, she might have to be. Jeb Bush gets 6 percent; Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul and Scott Walker get 5 percent; and Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal are at 4 percent.

In Iowa, other polls conducted show greater variation in Clinton’s lead. The schedule they have proposed does not give voters – nationally, and especially in early states – ample opportunity to hear from the Democratic candidates for President.

There’s even less interest among Ohio Democrats in Biden getting into the race. The margin of error was 3.2 percentage points.

Clinton is set to appear at Labor Day events Monday in Cedar Rapids, Burlington and Hampton, Illinois.

On Saturday Clinton said referenced a previous Trump comment and said “I’d rather you stop “cherishing women” and start respecting women”.