Pete Buttigieg is neck-and-neck with Joe Biden in New Hampshire poll
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden are essentially tied in a new 2020 New Hampshire poll.
A survey released by the University of New Hampshire on Monday has Buttigieg in third place behind Biden, earning 15 percent of the vote to Biden's 18 percent. That's a smaller gap than the poll's margin of error. In first place is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who earned 30 percent of the vote.
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This is just the latest in a series of polls showing Buttigieg in third place behind Biden and Sanders, although he and Biden have typically not been in such a dead heat.
The University of New Hampshire's poll was conducted by speaking to 549 New Hampshire adults over the phone from April 10-18. The margin of error of the overall survey is 4.2 percent and 6.3 percent for the 241 likely Democrats surveyed. Read the full results here.
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