Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 7-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., his closest rival for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, in a new poll of Pennsylvania Democrats by Franklin & Marshall College.
How the candidates polled:
- 22% -- Biden
- 15% -- Sanders
- 14% -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
- 7% -- former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- 6% -- former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg
- 5% -- businessman Andrew Yang
- 5% -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
No other candidate scored at least 5%.
The poll, conducted Jan. 20-26, surveyed 292 Democrats. The margin of error is plus or minus 9 percentage points.
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