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‘Iowa isn’t everything’: Biden supporters brace for loss in first 2020 state

By Joseph Simonson
Published January 28, 2020 3:24pm ET
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‘Iowa isn’t everything’: Biden supporters brace for loss in first 2020 state
Vice President Joseph Biden participates in a round table discussion on fighting domestic violence at Safehouse Denver, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Sitting next to Biden are Rose Andom, center, of the Rose Andom Center, and Dr. Kathryn Wells of Denver Health. Biden visited Safehouse Denver as part of his ongoing recognition that 2014 marks 20 years since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which then-senator Biden introduced as a bill in the 1990s. | (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Joe Biden’s supporters are setting their expectations low for his performance in the Feb. 3 caucuses despite their optimism he can win the 2020 Democratic nomination.

Polling ahead of the nation’s first nominating contest shows the former vice president and Delaware senator with a chance of winning. But he’s effectively dead-even or slightly behind 2020 Democratic rivals such as former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

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