It’s been a month now since Joe Biden announced he was running for president and the Delaware Democrat has been sitting atop the polls since then. The Biden boomlet has come despite conventional wisdom that said the candidates on left of the Democratic Party held all the energy going into 2020.
What’s happened to change the dynamic? Some of it may have to do with the situation in which the Democrats find themselves in 2019. Analysts and the media may be comparing the 2020 race to 2016, but on the Democratic side, it looks more like where the GOP was going into 2012. CONT.
Dante Chinni, NBC News
Recent polls: Democratic presidential preference