A new “Fox News” poll shows that Vice President Joe Biden jumped up 8 percent among Democratic primary voters compared to mid-August, while front-runner Hillary Clinton’s support fell 5 percent.
Biden registered 18 percent of likely primary voters, up from 10 percent a month earlier. Clinton slipped from 49 percent to 44 percent over the same period.
Biden’s surge implies that voters are switching from Clinton to Biden, since Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., remained at 30 percent over the month.
The vice president has yet to formally announce his candidacy.
This was not the only bad news for Clinton. In the same poll results, this time of all registered voters, 58 percent of voters said Hillary Clinton was “lying about how her emails were handled,” while only 32 percent believed her.
Among independents, she now faces a trust deficit of 39 points, as 64 percent believe she is lying, while 25 percent trust her. Among Republicans, 82 percent say she is lying, and 31 percent of Democrats agree.
