LA Times Poll: Sanders Takes Lead in Calif.; Warren Falls

Twenty-four percent of likely voters in California’s Democratic presidential primary now favor Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. – putting him in first place in the race, a new poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times reveals.

But Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is in second place with 22% of the vote – well within the poll’s margin of error.

Here are the top contenders in the California primary, according to the poll results released Thursday.

• Sanders —24%.  He’s up from 19% in a September survey.
• Warren —22%.  She’s down from 29%
• Former Vice President Joe Biden –14%.  Down from 20%
• South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg—12%. Up from 6%.

The poll, conducted Nov. 21-27 by the UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies, surveyed 1,694 people. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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