SurveyUSA poll: Michael Bloomberg surges to 2nd place among California voters ahead of Super Tuesday

[brooklynite]

KABC

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With Super Tuesday just two weeks away, an exclusive Eyewitness News poll conducted by SurveyUSA shows that Michael Bloomberg has surged into second place among California voters.

The survey's results were released Tuesday morning, just hours after the former New York City mayor qualified for his first Democratic presidential debate.

Sen. Bernie Sanders still leads with 25 percent, but Bloomberg is only 4 percentage points behind.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is in third place, according to the survey, followed closely by former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Candidates in the single digits include Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and businessman Tom Steyer.

Bernie Sanders, 25%
Mike Bloomberg, 21%
Joe Biden, 15%
Pete Buttigieg, 12%
Elizabeth Warren, 9%
Amy Klobuchar, 6%
Tom Steyer,%

[Kaleva]

1. kick

[virgogal]

2. Money talks,unfortunately.

[Magoo48]

3. No billionaires!

Bloomberg is a republican. We are a progressive state. No republican, redline, stop and frisk bullshit here please.

[Demsrule86]

6. Bloomberg is a Democrat so stop...Warren was a Republican longer than Bloomberg...He believes in

Choice, health care, fixing college debt, health care, gun registration,climate change and he may win the nomination. Sanders is an Independent too.

[thesquanderer]

9. That's all correct, but Warren is still more of a Dem than Bloomberg, because...

...she never ran against a Dem (Bloomberg did, 3x), governed as a Republican (albeit a moderate one), endorsed and provided major support for national Republican candidates. "Longer" doesn't matter, if no "damage" was done.

[Demsrule86]

12. I like Warren but am sick of the 'more' Democratic bullshit...just because you don't like a

candidate doesn't make them less of a Democrat...consider that Warren voted for Reagan during the aids crisis... I would choose Warren if she could win a primary or a general but she can't. Sander's people ruined her campaign. And after how she was treated, I would not count on her voters moving towards Sanders. As for Sanders he runs as a Democrat and then switches back after he wins to independent...so he isn't any sort of Democrat...even though he could be.

[thesquanderer]

15. I was answering your line, "Warren was a Republican longer than Bloomberg"

which seemed to indicate that who was 'more' of a Dem mattered to you. But I actually agree with you, it is not something I care about.

As for how many Warren voters will move to Sanders, morningconsult says that, currently, 38% of Warren supporters consider Sanders to be their second choice, leading the pack, ahead of 16% who would go to Klobuchar, and 14% who would go to Biden or Buttigieg (each).

[Demsrule86]

4. Oh boy, when Bloomberg leads and it looks like he will...Sanders supporters will go bonkers.

[LenaBaby61]

5. Not sure if this poll will hold up ...

ultimately, but I know several folks who plan to vote for Bloomberg in the primaries here in California, and for Bernie in the General if he is our nominee. They tell me that many of their relatives/friends plan on voting for Bloomberg. As I mentioned here last week, many told me that while they're not particularly in love with Bloomberg, they love the way that he fights back against tRump and embarrasses him via his political ads. Here in California, I've seen a steady diet of Bloomberg ads disparaging tRump, and I must admit that I LOVE those anti fat ass ads, because they take on tRump, something that I wish our side would do more of. I wish Biden would have went after tRump who disparaged he/his son Hunter. Talk more about tRump's crooked ass kids grifting and stealing, call them out for their nepotism. But he didn't.

[Bumperstickers]

7. Survey usa has been a very bad polling company for Sanders

Shocking to see him with a 5 point lead after they had him down by 10 last month when all other polls had him ahead by 5 to 15 points.

[Squinch]

8. Oh, look! A surge!

(Insert many distracting emojis here.)

[thesquanderer]

10. If Biden doesn't come in strong from NV/SC, he might drop below the 15% threshold...

...in which case ALL California's delegates could end up going to Sanders and Bloomberg.

[customerserviceguy]

11. I'm a bit surprised

that Steyer isn't doing so well in his home state. He'll need a win in SC just to get into the second tier in California.

[counting]

13. wow

41% of black voters for bloomberg and 17% for joe...thats crazy!

[Nanjeanne]

14. Disgusted.