Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is close to erasing Hillary Clinton’s edge among Democratic voters, according to a new survey.
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The latest Morning Consult national poll finds that Sanders has risen two percentage points since last week and is now within 3 percentage points of Clinton. The 74-year-old socialist draws 43 percent support among Democratic voters, compared to 46 percent for Clinton.
While Sanders’ favorability rating among women voters and millennials has continued to grow, Clinton’s favorability rating among those same groups has fallen in recent weeks. Seventy-one percent of registered voters ages 18 to 29 view the Vermont senator favorably, compared to 43 percent who hold a positive view of Clinton.
Among women, Clinton has a net-negative favorability rating of 53 to 43 percent, while Sanders is viewed favorably by 54 percent of women voters and unfavorably by 40 percent.
On the Republican side, front-runner Donald Trump continues to lead opponents John Kasich and Ted Cruz by double digits. The same survey find Trump with 46 percent support among Republican voters, Cruz with 26 percent and Kasich with 13 percent.
However, the percentage of voters who view Trump unfavorably remains the highest of any candidate left in the race for the White House. Sixty-one percent of voters have a negative impression of the billionaire, including 71 percent of millennials and 66 percent of women.
Of the five remaining candidates, Kasich and Sanders are the only 2016 hopefuls with net-positive favorability ratings.
The Morning Consult survey of 2,032 registered voters was conducted between April 13-17. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 2 percent.
