Fifty-one percent said they could support Clinton, but without enthusiasm.
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In New Hampshire, the second primary state, the numbers are slightly better. The paper reported that Biden is also sounding out political allies for advice and considering the strength of frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Just as Donald Trump has caught the imagination of a disaffected GOP base, Bernie Sanders has done the same in the Democratic Party.
He pointed out that Clinton is in sync with a lot of what Sanders is saying.
Vice President Joe Biden may know something the rest of us do not about investigations into Hillary Clinton’s misbehavior while she was secretary of state. That does not seem to have been hard for Biden, who shares much of President Barack Obama’s ideology.
According to the poll released earlier this week, 45 percent of Democrats, including independents who lean Democratic, say they want him to run for U.S. president in 2016, while 47 percent do not.
The bottom three candidates, former Virginina Senator Jim Webb, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, resonated with one percent or less of likely Democratic primary voters.
There is mounting pressure on the US Justice Department to open a criminal investigation against Clinton for mishandling sensitive government information through her private server while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. He needs to convince them that when the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson begin dumping money into the election, he’ll be able to withstand their assault, despite his decision to forgo any kind of Super PAC support.
A new Franklin Pierce University poll shows likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire supporting Sanders over Clinton 44 percent to 37 percent.
It’s the first time Sanders has surpassed Clinton in New Hampshire. Among poll respondents 65 and older, the 67-year-old Clinton had more than 50 percent support, compared to less than 30 percent for Sanders.
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“People come to Sanders’s rallies expecting to hear the truth, and he serves it up to them on a silver platter”, the political strategist Harland Dorrinson said.
