The first Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday evening was an opportunity for the unknown challengers to Hillary Clinton to make an impression, and it’s fair to say they did. However, Sanders’ backing appears to be based on whether or not Vice President Joe Biden decides to cast a bid for the Democratic nomination.
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For example, Sanders should have targeted Clinton’s view on education.
The results also show that Clinton could be in trouble when it comes to wooing Granite State voters to her side.
Sanders made by far the most spending pledges during the debate with an estimate from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation putting the figure at a staggering $1 trillion.
Democrats are more likely to describe Biden than Clinton as at least somewhat honest, 72 percent to 60 percent, and likable, 77 percent to 69 percent.
If Resonate’s data ring true, a potential Biden campaign would have to come at Clinton from the right.
And nationally, Clinton has started to again cement her status as the front-runner.
Meanwhile, Trump’s performance has only improved, as his support reached 27 percent in a new CNN/ORC poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Of course, while these numbers are consistent with previous surveys, the latest polls show that Clinton may have showed off a few confidence and experience in political hobble-gobble, but Sanders didn’t lose any ground. She had a 27-point lead over Sanders and a 31-point advantage over Biden.
“Before the presidential race started to heat up, the presumed top candidates were always Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush – the establishment candidates”, Professor Rothermel said. “She said in the debate, ‘I represented Wall Street.’ And yes, she did”. No other Democratic candidate received more than two percent in the poll. But if things are only going to get worse for Hillary and if Obama doesn’t want Sanders then they need to have a Plan B. That would be B as in Biden.
Compared with pre-debate polling, Sanders’ support is up five points since mid-September, but no other candidate showed significant change.
The Associated Press-GfK survey found Mrs Clinton had regained traction in the 2016 primary contest following a summer slump, with almost eight in 10 Democrats saying they had a positive opinion of her.
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While none of the Democratic presidential candidates performed so well at last week’s debate that they cleared a straight path to the win the party’s nomination, a couple of candidates – Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb to name names – probably underperformed their way out of the picture. That percentage is lower than the last time the question was asked in a Post-ABC poll, which was in late March.
