come through on super tuesday. that is one theory he had. it would take a lot to dislodge the former president, incredible poll numbers and more indictment and more cases could do it. others raced jonathan turley, classified documents and mar-a-lago and all that, it would take a lot to disrupt that. we have seen the poll numbers remain steady even before the indictment, but it had been talked about for quite a while at this point. when it happened it wasn t something voters had been aware could be coming down the pipe. we ve seen the numbers remain steady in the field and seen other candidates who have been making trips to early states not seeing numbers shoot up into double digits unless you are ron desantis and certain states, you are seeing mike pence, and nikki haley do well also, august
how he capitalized on this stunning rise. he s gone to 7% in no time, basically, you know, with thaul all that ad spending. i don t see how he is said up to have the showing that he needs to have on super tuesday. if biden does well enough in those early primary states. right now it looks like he might well. so this is going to be fascinating. i could write a scenario where biden all but wraps it up after super tuesday and i could also write a scenario where we re just slogging through the spring with different winners here and there with no clarity in this race. and and in case bloomberg s money could really make a zblirchs as long difference. bernie sanders hanging in in those early states right behind joe biden. i want to ask you about a
numbers. but they haven t eroded significantly. and so he continued to be atop the field. the other thing why it throw in there is pete buttigieg. we ve seen him on the slide both nationally and in iowa. it looks like he might have peaked too early. and as he has been falling away, we ve seen elizabeth warren and bernie sanders both picking up. and then bloomberg, of course, continues to rise. and obviously he s spending a ton of money, but his strategy so far, which people including myself sort of scoffed at, which was i m going to skip those early contests and i ll there to pick up the pieces, you know, on super tuesday, may, in fact but it only works if biden falters. if bide n is able to stick this out, then i think bloomberg s rise is going to get topped out in a certain percentage point. while we have a lot of polls, we ve had one poll in iowa in the last four weeks and we re 50
days away from the vote. one poll in new hampshire, one vote in south carolina in the past four weeks. i d love to see more date in tho data in those states. joe biden s lead isn t as big. it shrinks over bernie sanders in iowa, new hampshire, nevada, and south carolina, joe biden maintains his position in first with 29% and bernie sanders now at five points behind the 24%. elizabeth warren finds herself again at 15% and tom steyer comes in fourth with 10%. pete buttigieg sits in fifth with 9% and andrew yang remains at 4%. and, of course, bloomberg in the early states, gene robinson, in part because bloomberg s not going to go until he s focusing on super tuesday and beyond. you should see the ads. but you even look, though, at joe biden and those early states. yeah. you know, a couple weeks ago what did we hear?
chris christie. that wouldn t have changed the race. it would have changed new hampshire. then you went on a road for a lost weekend where you trading insults with trump. have you seen his hands? they re like this. little mouth on him. ding, ding, ding. i didn t like that we did that. it s not who i am. it was at the end where you felt like someone has to stand up, but when we didn t, on super tuesday, we underperformed. we could have won virginia. came very close to winning in virginia. probably should have spent a little more time there. jumped on it too late. if we had won virginia and minnesota, there might have been a different narrative. you come out of super tuesday. win one state and the media says this guy s got no chance to win. people who are spothing you gravitate towards someone else. so no regrets. i don t have regrets. do you think you might run again? i have no