Vice President Joe Biden and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are the most popular choices to be the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2020, according to a Public Policy Poll released Tuesday.
Biden, the current vice president, and Vermont Sen. Sanders lead the pack among a list of Democrats the poll offered as options.
- Biden: 31 percent.
- Sanders: 24 percent.
- Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 16 percent.
- New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker: 4 percent.
- Minnesota Sen. Al Franken: 3 percent.
- New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: 3 percent.
- Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown: 2 percent.
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: 2 percent.
- U.S. Housing & Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro: less than 1 percent.
Biden, Sanders, and Warren are the only ones in the poll who are well-known to most Democratic voters, the poll's report said.
The poll also asked voters the age they preferred for a presidential candidate.
- Under the age of 60: 57 percent.
- Under 70: 77 percent.
- In 70s: 8 percent.
- No opinion: 15 percent.
More Democrat voters would prefer a brand-new candidate, the poll results showed.
- Someone who has never run for president before: 41 percent.
- Someone who has previously ran: 25 percent.
- Not sure either way: 34 percent.
The poll questioned 400 Democratic primary voters on Dec. 6 and 7 with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
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