U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has been steadily climbing in popularity this year and is now tied with former Vice President
Joe Biden for the 2020
Democratic presidential nomination among registered voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll.
The online poll, released Thursday, shows that 20% of registered
Democrats and independents said they would back Sanders over 11 other candidates to run in the general
election against President
Donald Trump, an increase of 2 percentage points from a similar poll that ran last week.
Another 19% supported Biden, 12% said they would vote for Senator
Elizabeth Warren, 9% backed former
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 6% said they would support Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.