With less than a month to go before the first in the nation presidential primary, former Vice President Joe Biden has taken the lead in a recent poll of New Hampshire voters.
The Democrat contest has been very fluid of late as the relative political momentum of the various candidates ebbs and flows. While the current state of the race has Biden on top (if polls are to be believed), the results of the Iowa caucuses could potentially shake up the race in New Hampshire yet again.
From The Hill:
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s primary next month, with Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) trailing, according to a new Boston Herald survey of likely primary voters.
Twenty-six percent of respondents supported Biden in the poll, while 22 percent and 18 percent threw their support behind Sanders and Warren, respectively.
Meanwhile, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg came in at 7 percent, followed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 4 percent.
The survey marks a shift in voters’ support in the Granite State. The same poll in October showed Warren leading the pack at 25 percent, while Biden followed close behind at 24 percent and Sanders trailed at 22 percent.
The poll is welcome news for the Biden campaign after Friday’s Des Moines Register/CNN poll showed Biden at 15 percent in Iowa, trailing Buttigieg at 16 percent. Sanders and Warren sat in the poll’s top two slots at 20 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
The Iowa caucuses are set to be held on Feb. 3, while the New Hampshire primary will be held on Feb. 11.