Bloomberg ties with Harris, Klobuchar in new national poll

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) is tied with Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in a new poll of the Democratic presidential primary race.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found Bloomberg with the support of 3 percent of Democratic and left-leaning independent voters nationwide, higher than entrepreneur Andrew Yang (D) and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, as well as Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who each registered 2 percent support in the poll.

{mosads}Bloomberg and his fellow candidates in the single digits all significantly trailed the party’s current front-runners, former Vice President Joe Biden (D), Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), who have vied for control of the top tier of the Democratic field for months.

Other candidates in the primary including billionaire Tom Steyer and the recently announced former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) failed to register even 1 percent support from Democratic and left-leaning independent voters in the Quinnipiac poll.

The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 574 self-identified Democratic primary voters between Nov. 21-25 with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.