Elizabeth Warren trails the pack of top-tier Democratic presidential candidates in a poll of likely primary voters in New Hampshire three weeks before the state’s primary contest.
The Massachusetts senator, 70, registered at 10% support in the Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released Tuesday, a decline of 4 percentage points since the institutions last conducted a New Hampshire poll in November. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders led the pack with 16% support, unchanged since November, while former Vice President Joe Biden increased his standing 3 percentage points to 15%, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was in third place with 12% support, down 1 percentage point since November.
The poll surveyed 500 likely New Hampshire Democratic primary voters by cellphone and landline from Jan. 15-19, and it has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
“It’s highly fluid,” David Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center, said of the primary race. “Right now, it appears that one of the top four candidates will be the eventual winner. And the question is: Who will have the momentum at the right time, who will peak at the right time?”
Warren’s standing reflects a steep decline in support since she peaked in New Hampshire polls four months ago. In mid-October, Warren led the field with 28% support in the RealClearPolitics average of presidential primary polls. She now ties with Buttigieg at 14.3% in the average, behind Biden’s 18.5% and Sanders’s 19.8%.
The poll comes in the wake of a spat between Warren and Sanders, 78, over what he said to her at a private dinner in 2018, creating tension between the left-wing ideological allies. Warren alleges that Sanders said he did not think a woman could win the presidency in 2020, while Sanders aggressively denies making such a statement.
While the two New Englanders have publicly said that they do not want to discuss the disagreement further, a “hot mic” moment following a Democratic presidential debate last week suggests that there is still tension between them. “I think you called me a liar on national TV,” Warren was heard telling Sanders.
