Sanders has wide leads in two of three battleground states: survey
By Rebecca Klar - 02/23/20 01:21 PM EST
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has wide leads over the Democratic presidential field in Michigan and Wisconsin, but is facing a tighter race in Pennsylvania, according to a poll released Sunday.
Sanders holds a 16-point lead over his closest competitors in Wisconsin, based on the University of Wisconsin-Madison survey.
Sanders has 30 percent support in the battleground state, pollsters found. The rest of the top-top Democratic candidates are lumped together within 1 percentage point of each other. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg both register 13 percent support in Wisconsin, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg trail closely behind with 12 percent support apiece.
Sen, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has 9 percent support in Wisconsin.
The poll also found Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren all beat President Trump in general election match-ups in the battleground state. The poll did not include a Bloomberg contest against Trump.
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The survey polled 1,300 people in Michigan, 1,300 in Pennsylvania and 1,000 in Wisconsin. The margin of error for the full sample in each state ranges between 3 to 4 percentage points.
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