Sen. Kamala Harris' attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden's social justice record have apparently paid off.
The senator from California has vaulted into a third-place tie in the Democratic presidential primary, according to the latest Morning Consult Poll released after Thursday's debates.
Sen. Harris, who made the biggest move up (6 percentage points) among the Democratic field, now has support of 12% of primary voters, which doubled her past 6%, according to the poll. She is tied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who fell 1 percentage point.
The biggest drop came from Biden, who fell from 38% to 33% – a 5-point drop that roughly matches Harris' rise, even if indirectly.
Biden still is the overwhelming favorite in the poll, trumping Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who holds steady at 19%.
Also among the top five, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg lost ground, dropping 1 percentage point from 7% to 6%, falling to fifth place.
The RealClearPolitics national polling average has Sen. Harris in double digits in only the Morning Consult Poll, which is the first to have come out after Thursday's debate performance.
The survey polled 2,407 respondents moments after the end of Thursday's debate through all day Friday and contains a plus or minus 2 percentage point margin of error.
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