In an early look at hypothetical 2020 presidential election fields, both former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., lead President Donald Trump head-to-head, according to Fox News.
Biden leads President Trump in a hypothetical by 7 percentage points (47-40 percent), the voters polled leading candidate. The only other Democrat to lead President Trump in a hypothetic campaign was Sen. Sanders (3 percentage points, 44-4 percent), according to the other poll results.
The poll's leading candidates to win the Democratic primary:
- Biden – 31 percent.
- Sanders – 23 percent.
- Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. – 8 percent.
- Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas – 8 percent.
- Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. – 4 percent.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. – 4 percent.
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. – 2 percent.
- All other candidates are 1 percent or less.
Among the candidates above, only Biden has yet to officially announce his candidacy.
The Fox News poll surveyed 1,002 registered voters – including 403 Democratic primary voters – from March 17-20 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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