Poll: Sanders leads Biden by 9 points in Iowa

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a commanding lead over the Democratic field in Iowa just days before the state is set to hold its first-in-the-nation caucuses, according to a new poll.

An Emerson College poll released Sunday evening of registered Democrats and left-leaning independents found Sanders in the lead with 30 percent of respondents planning to support him in the caucuses, while former Vice President Joe Biden (D) followed with 21 percent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has sunk to fourth place in the poll behind Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) at 11 percent and 13 percent, respectively, while former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg rounded out the top tier in fifth place with 10 percent.

No other candidate registered above 5 percent support in the poll. Sanders’s dominance in the poll comes after a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released earlier in the day showed Biden with a slight lead over Sanders in the state.

The Emerson College poll surveyed 450 Democrats and independents in Iowa via landlines and online polling, and has a margin of error of 4.6 percentage points.