Sen. Elizabeth Warren has opened up a 7 percentage-point lead over former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential race, according to a national poll released Thursday.
The Massachusetts lawmaker got 28 percent of support from Democratic voters and independent voters who lean Democratic, while Biden received 21 percent, the Quinnipiac University poll found.
Following them are Sen. Bernie Sanders at 15 percent, Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 10 percent, Sen. Kamala Harris at 5 percent and Sen. Amy Klobuchar with 3 percent.
No other candidate got more than 1 percent.
Warren was leading Biden 30 percent to 27 percent in a poll released Oct. 14, a day before the fourth Democratic presidential debate.
In that poll, Sanders got 11 percent of support, Buttigieg got 8 percent, Harris got 4 percent and Klobuchar got 2 percent.
“Former Vice President Joe Biden slips, Senator Elizabeth Warren steadies, Senator Bernie Sanders gets his groove back, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg breaks back into double digits,” said Quinnipiac University polling analyst Mary Snow.
Warren draws her biggest support from those who consider themselves very liberal (48 percent to Biden’s 7 percent) and from white voters with a college degree (37 percent to 15 percent for Biden).
The former vice president gets his biggest support from black voters (43 percent to Warren’s 20 percent) and from those over 65 (35 percent to 23 percent for Warren).
The poll was conducted between Oct. 17 and 21 and surveyed 1,587 self-identified registered voters nationwide.
It has a plus/minus 3.1 percentage-point margin of error.