Little Beto is down to 1% in the latest NBC/WSJ poll.
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Now that Democratic primary voters have had a few days to ruminate on last week’s royal rumble Democratic debate, post-debate polling has begun to roll in. The newest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of likely Dem voters, released Monday evening, shows former Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren to be the big winners, with Biden still sitting pretty at 31 percent and Warren blasting into a strong second place at 25 percent. Things look grimmer for Kamala Harris, who has lost 8 points since NBC’s last poll in July and is now drifting forlornly in fifth place, her status as a putative top-tier candidate looking shakier than ever.
But perhaps the poll’s biggest loser was a guy who didn’t even make it into the tweet announcing the results: Beto O’Rourke, who is still stubbornly holding onto his candidacy despite mounting evidence that, like 2018, 2020 isn’t going to be his year.
Back in July, Beto was stuck in the doldrums at 2 percent, struggling to define what his campaign was about and smarting over having squandered the huge burst of Democratic excitement that greeted him when he launched in March. But Beto found his mojo in recent weeks, locked down and cornered the market on his new signature issue—federal gun control—and, last week, spellbound the audience at the Democratic debate with a fiery speech about how the moment had come for the federal government to get serious about assault weapon confiscation. Now, the results are in, and the new and improved Beto O’Rourke is polling at . . .
One percent. Ouch. |
