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Sanders reaches Biden as a favorite in an important poll after facing Warren and Clinton

2020-01-23T02:52:07.850Z


Judging by the results of several polls, Sanders' latest controversies with members of his party have come as a ring to his campaign for the presidency.


It has been complicated weeks for the senator for Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders , who has been involved in controversies with prominent figures of his own party, although apparently the national attention he has received has come as a ring to his campaign , judging by the latest results of several surveys.

For the first time the CNN network and the SSRS polling house have registered the 78-year-old candidate, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, in the first place with 27% of the preferences.

His closest competitor in the race for the Democratic nomination, and who has appeared in most of the polls in the lead, was former Vice President Joe Biden , 77, with 24% of the preferences.

Although the 3% difference is within the margin of error of the survey (of +/- 3.4%), which is considered a technical tie between Sanders and Biden, the trend favors the senator from Vermont, who has rebounded during the last month.

Sanders' approval ranged from 13% to 19% in 2019. But in the last weeks of 2019 and the first of 2020 its popularity has exceeded the 20% barrier, breaking down the theory that it had already reached its maximum potential.

Not all polls register Sanders with such high approval figures, and in most Biden polls it is still in the lead, but two other important polls (Monmouth and Morning Consult) published on Wednesday confirm Sanders's good timing and place him second, above the 20% barrier.

Gone seems to be the aspiring and senator for Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren , relegated to a third place with an average approval of 15%, compared to 21.6% of Sanders and 28.1% of Biden, according to several surveys averaged by the information web Real Clear Politics .

Controversies

Warren and Sanders accused each other of calling themselves liars when the last Democratic debate ended.

The controversy among the candidates of the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party began when a Warren adviser said that Sanders had said during a private meeting in 2018 that a woman could not be president . Warren, who was at the meeting, then said this was true. But Sanders has denied it again and again.

The two candidates withdrew from the debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 14 without shaking hands and with a virtual alliance apparently broken.

The former Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, Hillary Clinton , said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Tuesday that no one liked Sanders, that nobody wanted to work with him and that he had achieved nothing as a congressman. When asked if he would support him if he won the nomination, he said he would not say it yet.

After receiving criticism on social media, Clinton rectified the same Tuesday and clarified on Twitter that his "number one priority" was "withdraw Trump and, as I have always done, I will do my best to support our nominee."

His initial comments opened the scars of the brutal 2016 primary between Sanders and Clinton just as Democrats are about to start voting on their next candidate.

Sanders loyalists believed that the Democratic establishment had manipulated the primary elections in favor of Clinton, who won the nomination but ended up losing the general election to Donald Trump.

Clinton wrote in her memoir What Happened after her defeat in 2016 that she felt that some of Sanders's criticisms of her had driven Trump to victory, and he regretted that Sanders did not back his campaign fast enough after losing the nomination . In The Hollywood Reporter's interview, she accused Sanders of fostering a toxic culture in her campaign.

"We are still in a very vigorous primary season. However, I will say that it is not just him, it is the culture that surrounds him. It is his leadership team," Clinton had said. Then, referring to a group of aggressive Sanders supporters on the networks, he continued: "They are their prominent supporters. They are their online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks against many of their competitors, especially women."

Clinton added in the interview: "I really hope that people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that I have allowed this culture, not only allowed, it seems to be really supporting it a lot."

Sanders, like other senators running for president, was in Washington on Tuesday to participate in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. He declined to comment on Clinton's critical comments, saying only: "Together, we will move forward and defeat the most dangerous president in the history of the United States."

Even before Clinton's nightly tweet, his advisors had tried to minimize the consequences of his comments. Nick Merrill, a Clinton spokesman, tweeted that "we all have to strive for the candidate, whoever it is, and @HillaryClinton, as always, will not be an exception."

His differences with Clinton and Warren have overshadowed a series of clashes between Sanders and another rival in the face of the 2020 elections, Biden, for an opinion piece written by one of the senator's supporters that suggests the former vice president was corrupt .

“I don't think Joe is corrupt in any way. And I'm sorry that that opinion piece has appeared, "Sanders told CBS.

The opinion article, published in The Guardian newspaper by Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout, states that Biden "has perfected the art of taking large contributions, and then representing his corporate donors at the expense of Americans middle class and hardworking. "

Source: telemundo

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