Poll: Biden retakes lead in Florida

[George II]

Former Vice President Joe Biden is reclaiming his front-runner status in Florida, according to a survey released on Thursday by St. Pete Polls.

The poll shows Biden pulling ahead of the pack in the Sunshine State with 35 percent support. Meanwhile, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg fell into second place with 25 percent support.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has taken the lead in polls nationally after back-to-back wins in the New Hampshire primary and Nevada caucuses, is running in a distant third in Florida. The St. Pete Poll pegged his support in the state at 13 percent, a sign that the recent traction he has enjoyed in other states isn’t translating in Florida, where voters will cast ballots on March 17.

No other candidate registered double-digit support in the survey. Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg finished with about 8 percent support, while Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) registered 5 percent and 4 percent, respectively.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/484893-poll-biden-retakes-lead-in-florida?fbclid=IwAR0M_WDrGVDfsFnpSpkuTGzDzPNC_4NF5EQYzyDPKMZxEODEweRTqjV1_ZY

[Peacetrain]

1. 210 delegates...and I want every one of them

[HarlanPepper]

4. That would be a huge win for Joe.

[George II]

7. He'd get about 55% + of those, Bloomberg the rest. The others would be shut out.

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[Blue_true]

18. Florida alone erases IA, NH, NV for both Biden and Bloomberg. nt

[Hortensis]

2. I believe this is the REAL electorate talking, NOT Putin's useful idiots.

[Cha]

3. Thank you, Florida.. Steady as you go, Joe!

Mahalo, George!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. I could get burned at the stake for this ...

It may be sacrilege around here, but if a Biden / Warren or Warren / Biden ticket took the White House, I could sleep as easy at night as when Obama was in there.

[TwilightZone]

27. I'm good with either of those.

I suppose it doesn't check a couple of the boxes many would like, but I could see them being very complimentary.

[Cha]

31. Sounds Divine.

[Iamaartist]

5. K&R...Go Joe ....😎 🦩

[MontanaMama]

6. This is good.

Onward Joe.

[rzemanfl]

8. K&R. n/t

[doc03]

9. Bernie lost Florida with his praising Castro. He also

lost PA, Ohio and any other state where they are fracing.
Democrats should have taken the gloves of with Sanders long ago. I hope it is not too late. All the Democrats I know have said they will not vote for Sanders.

[katmondoo]

10. Happy day for me in Florida.

[emmaverybo]

11. Wonderful. I think the media hype effect and impact of first states is wearing off though Trump

and Russians will keep trying for Bernie. The double whammy of Biden’s character and experience is coming through now.

Berne has never presented a coherent, substantive foreign policy vision and his lack of judgement in praising Castro previews what we would get more of in a Sanders presidency. Enough improvised policy positions and loose talk.

[NurseJackie]

12. I guess love of the Cuban Revolution and Castro isn't going over so well.

And so... apparently... this is something that's LONG been simmering. I found this:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/bernie-sanders-despised-democrats-in-1980s-said-a-jfk-speech

Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders once said that he was "physically nauseated" by a speech made by President John F. Kennedy when Sanders was a young man, because Kennedy's "hatred for the Cuban Revolution [...] was so strong."

"Kennedy was young and appealing and ostensibly liberal," Sanders reminisced in a 1987 interview with The Gadfly, a student newspaper at the University of Vermont. "But I think at that point, seeing through Kennedy, and what liberalism was, was probably a significant step for me to understand that conventional politics or liberalism was not what was relevant."

Why would Kennedy's opposition-to and "hatred for the Cuban Revolution" elicit such a response from Bernie? That sure sounds like the reaction that someone would have if they have a certain "fondness" or respect or admiration for the Cuban Revolution.

It's pretty clear what he's saying and what he's getting at there. He even repeats it for emphasis at the end. What else could explain it?

It's really not a good look, and if nominated, the GOP will have a goldmine of material to use against Bernie.

[LiberalFighter]

20. I seriously doubt anyone our age that were around during Kennedy

are finding it easy to support Sanders. I lost interest in Sanders back in 2016. And it keeps adding up.

[peggysue2]

13. Go, Joe!

Really good news coming out recently for Biden.

Which makes my heart sing.

We can do this!

AGO4JOE2020

[OliverQ]

14. St. Petes is not a great poll.

And I thought polls are useless? That's what you all keep saying anytime it's pointed out that Bernie is winning most polls.

[Blue_true]

21. Maybe the poll isn't great, but the picture it paints of Florida is accurate.

Sanders is going to have a rough day on March 17.

[TwilightZone]

26. National polls are useless.

State polls in swing states are more relevant, because those states will essentially be the only ones that matter in November.

Context.

[rockfordfile]

32. It's important to win Florida. Florida is a purple state

[PatSeg]

15. Great news!

[LaMouffette]

16. Hooray!!!

Go, Joe! You've got this!

[lucca18]

17. Yes! Wonderful!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Perhaps all that BS about everybody should drop out except one was really just BS.

[mcar]

22. SO and I just mailed in our primary ballots

2 votes for Biden.

I am still listed here as undecided and Joe, while I love him, has never been my first choice (or second, to be honest). But, I am a real, practical Democrat. I don't need to be in love with a candidate to believe he has the best shot of taking out the filth in our WH.

So, Joe got 2 more primary votes in FL.

[GitRDun]

24. I have been saying this for months

As soon as we get to the states whose demographics are more like the US as a whole, Biden will start winning.

The Democratic Party is a big tent party.

Iowa and New Hampshire are irrelevant.

South Carolina should be first.

[Bayard]

28. Just ordered my Joe Biden sweatshirt,

And Amy McGrath hat. I will be stylin' in Kentucky! (but I'm afraid if I put my Biden sticker on my truck my tires will be slashed!)

GO JOE!!

[Cha]

29. Good on you, Bayard!

[William769]

30. The only ads I have seen on tv so far here in Florida have been from Bloomberg

I sure would like to see some from Biden.

[oasis]

33. Biden is the solid choice.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

34. I live in Florida

Some people I know are doing absentee ballot. That's fine for them, but I like to vote in person. I want to see my vote for Joe go right in that box with my own eyes

[progressoid]

35. Oh good, polls are important again.