Senator from Vermont leads
Clinton by six points in new Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Bernie Sanders
ahead of Hillary Clinton by six points nationwide, his biggest lead in the
presidential race so far.
The survey, released Tuesday,
shows Sanders
polling at 41.7 percent among 998 likely Democratic voters, while Clinton got 35.5
percent.
As Salon points
out, Reuters' daily tracking feature "illustrates that Sanders has led
Clinton nationally for a majority of days in February."
The figures come just ahead of
the Democratic primary in South Carolina on February 27, where Sanders is still
trailing the former secretary of state. According
to Bloomberg, the senator has 200 paid staffers on the ground in South
Carolina, making it his biggest state operation thus far.
As Salon's deputy politics
editor Sophia Tesfaye writes:
Although the next Democratic
showdown does not look promising for the Sanders campaign, the Vermont senator
looks to blunt any sense of momentum Clinton may have after a win in both
Nevada and South Carolina by picking off crucial Super Tuesday states. Sanders
has been steadily gaining ground in Georgia and Texas, which award
approximately 20 percent of total delegates between the two of them.
Reuters also found that
Sanders would win in a landslide
against GOP frontrunner Donald
Trump, taking 43.6 percent to Trump's 30.4 percent, in a survey of 1,574
respondents.
On Sunday, speaking to a crowd
of 5,200 in Greenville, S.C., Sanders said, "If you want a candidate who is
going to defeat Donald Trump, you’re looking at him."
"There would be nothing
that would give me greater pleasure than in fact beating Donald Trump," he
said.
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