The Washington Post reports:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on the strength of his performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, has surged nationally and now holds a sizable lead over all of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Former vice president Joe Biden, who led Sanders in a Post-ABC national poll in January, has seen a sharp drop in his support after finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses and fifth in the New Hampshire primary. Biden is now in a battle for second place with former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, who won the state-delegate-count battle in the Iowa caucuses and came a close second to Sanders in New Hampshire, is in single digits nationally, roughly even with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), whose surprise third-place finish in New Hampshire further scrambled the Democratic contest.
In national polls released yesterday by PBS/NPR and WSJ/NBC, Sanders’ lead was 12 points in each one.
BREAKING: New @ABC News/WaPo national poll of the Democratic primary. https://t.co/E3o8GGoNYm
Sanders: 32%
Biden: 17%
Bloomberg: 14%
Warren: 11%
Buttigieg: 7%
Klobuchar: 6%— ABC News (@ABC) February 19, 2020