Biden Ahead of Sanders in ABC-Post Survey of Pro-Democrat Voters

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden leads Senator Bernie Sanders by 17 percent to 11 percent among Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed.

Former Vice-President now Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden greets a few Amtrak employees as he arrives at 30th St. Station after attending a fundraiser in Philadelphia on April 25, 2019.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer

by Jim Jia, Bloomberg

Published Apr. 28, 2019, 5:34 a.m. ET

(Bloomberg) — Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden leads Senator Bernie Sanders by 17 percent to 11 percent among Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed.

Biden has 3 percent support among the voters under 30 years old, compared with Sanders’s 13 percent, according to the poll, which was conducted by phone from April 22 to 25 among 1,001 American adults, with a 3.5-point margin of error.

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