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riversedge

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Oct 21: New Poll Shows Most Dem Candidates Would Defeat Trump In Minnesota, Including Klobuchar

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https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/10/21/new-poll-shows-most-dem-candidates-would-defeat-trump-in-minnesota-including-klobuchar/


New Poll Shows Most Dem Candidates Would Defeat Trump In Minnesota, Including Klobuchar

By Esme Murphy

October 21, 2019 at 2:53 pm

Filed Under:Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Esme Murphy, Iowa, Joe Biden, Local TV

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A new Star Tribune-Minnesota poll shows top Democratic candidates doing very well in one-on-one match-ups against President Trump, among Minnesota voters. The poll comes just over a year before the 2020 election and four months before Minnesota’s March 3, 2020 primary.

According to the poll, Joe Biden would beat Trump, 50% to 38%. Sen. Bernie Sanders would beat Trump, 49% to 40%. And Sen. Elizabeth Warren would beat Trump, 51% to 40%.

However, Sen. Amy Klobuchar would beat Trump by an even larger margin than all of them, 55% to Trump’s 38%. The margin of error was 3.5%.

One note of caution, in the run up to the 2016 election nearly every poll underestimated the Trump’s support.

“It is still definitely possible that support for Trump could be missed, that all those who support Trump are still underrepresented in this poll or any poll,” University of Minnesota professor Kathryn Pearson, with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, said.................................
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Oct 21: New Poll Shows Most Dem Candidates Would Defeat Trump In Minnesota, Including Klobuchar (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2019 OP
One thing I know DownriverDem Oct 2019 #1
I riversedge Oct 2019 #5
K&R Scurrilous Oct 2019 #2
Wow those numbers are great for Klobuchar! Turin_C3PO Oct 2019 #3
Hope she makes the next debate and starts gaining traction. ooky Oct 2019 #6
But your prefeence is biden? Joe941 Oct 2019 #7
If I had to vote today, yes. ooky Oct 2019 #8
No surprise there her taking her home state FloridaBlues Oct 2019 #4
 

DownriverDem

(6,228 posts)
1. One thing I know
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 08:42 PM
Oct 2019

Biden is the best candidate to win the Electoral College which is state by state. trump doesn't want to run against Biden. We can't blow this folks.

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riversedge

(70,187 posts)
5. I
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 09:53 PM
Oct 2019

go back and forth with your comments myself.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Turin_C3PO

(13,964 posts)
3. Wow those numbers are great for Klobuchar!
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 09:43 PM
Oct 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

ooky

(8,922 posts)
6. Hope she makes the next debate and starts gaining traction.
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 10:36 PM
Oct 2019

She's been my favorite candidate from the beginning. Would love to see her candidacy take off.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Joe941

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7. But your prefeence is biden?
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 10:45 PM
Oct 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
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ooky

(8,922 posts)
8. If I had to vote today, yes.
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 10:46 PM
Oct 2019

I also want to win.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

FloridaBlues

(4,007 posts)
4. No surprise there her taking her home state
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 09:53 PM
Oct 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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