The Vice President is surging but Hillary Clinton is still in the lead.
The newest Quinnipiac survey of Pennsylvania Democrats shows Clinton leading Biden 36% to 25%.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders finishes in third with 19%.
Most of Biden’s support, though, is coming at the expense of Clinton. For instance, Sanders is at the same level of support as he was in August. The VP, on the other hand, has gained six points while the ex-Secretary of State has dropped nine points.
Furthermore when Quinnipiac took Biden out of the list of candidates, Clinton got 51% while Sanders received 25%.
Rounding out the rest of the field were Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Larry Lessig who all got 1%.
General Election Match-Ups
Despite the primary results, Biden performed best out of the top three Democratic when it came to general election match-ups.
Quinnipiac compared Clinton, Biden and Sanders to five Republican candidates.
Biden had the lead on four of them: Jeb Bush (45/42), Carly Fiorina (44/43), Marco Rubio (45/43) and Donald Trump (50/40).
The only Republican Hillary outpolls is Donald Trump (44/42) and Bernie Sanders does better against the outspoken billionaire (46/41).
This survey was conducted by Quinnipiac University using live interviewers calling land lines and cell phones from September 25th to October 5th. They contacted 442 registered Democrats, 427 registered Republicans and a total of 1,049 registered voters. The margin of error is +/- 4.7% among Democrats and +/- 3% overall.
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Biden will drop again when he actually announces, if he decides to run. The reality does not match the hype.
I like Joe, and supported him for President 20 years ago. Now he should take the retirement he has earned and enjoy his remaining life.