elizabeth warren is at 21%, up 17 points since this spring. bernie sanders is in third mace at 19%, and pete buttigieg is fourth at 7%. in head e to head matchups, president trump trails biden, sanders and warren with joe biden performing best, winning by a margin of 12 points and, yes, hillary clinton outperforms some of the declared candidates, although she and buttigieg are within the margin of error. and if you re thinking about someone new entering the race, half of democratic primary voters they d definitely vote for michelle obama. 27% say the same for hillary clinton. but former new york city mayor michael bloomberg gets just 6%. and we re back now with the panel. well, kristin, as our polling expert, what stands out for you in these new fox policy polls in the democratic race? the fact that joe biden still remains in that front of runner front-runner position
elizabeth warren is at 21%, up 17 points since this spring. bernie sanders is in third mace at 19%, and pete buttigieg is fourth at 7%. in head e to head matchups, president trump trails biden, sanders and warren with joe biden performing best, winning by a margin of 12 points and, yes, hillary clinton outperforms some of the declared candidates, although she and buttigieg are within the margin of error. and if you re thinking about someone new entering the race, half of democratic primary voters they d definitely vote for michelle obama. 27% say the same for hillary clinton. but former new york city mayor michael bloomberg gets just 6%. and we re back now with the panel. well, kristin, as our polling expert, what stands out for you in these new fox policy polls in the democratic race? the fact that joe biden still remains in that front of runner front-runner position
trump. we communicated that to him in march. and i ll say, i m not a polling expert, but that does sound a little fishy. well, it was. and, again, donald trump came in fourth. there were a bunch of other folks that aren t running that actually came in above where he was. and i mean no disrespect by that because i think the world of him. i have his message deserves to be heard. and that is why we worked very hard with various networks, including msnbc to make sure there are town hall meetings. i think in this cycle there has been unprecedented access to the voters. i commend msnbc and other networks that are allowing these formats. i commend our partners in the ecosystem. there is so many campaign forums being held. i saw one. i didn t personally participate. but there was one in las vegas a while ago with labor leaders to
target voters. what messages are going to be most persuadable and it s very valuable. every polling expert said if this did wind up in the hands of the russians, it would be useful to them, especially in targeting their ads, which we know they did throughout 2016. we need think about the connections between these ukrainians and russians and then from there figure out what the russians actually did with that data f anything. the reason we know about this in the filing of course is that mueller s team says manafort lied about all of this stuff. he lied about talking about deal that would lift the deal on sanctions in russia. and he lied about this sharing of the data. as a former prosecutor, that itself seems to me to speak volumes of what the motive is.
i don t think it diminishes the fact that there was no reason why paul manafort should have been sharing ukrainian polling data with anyone outside of the campaign. whether this was an effort to shore up his own desk with the people he owed millions of dollars to by the time he entered the trump campaign or whether this was a concerted effort to collude with the russians or pro-russian ukrainians. we don t know yet. but the fact he took that internal campaign polling data, which is essentially used to target voters. what messages are going to be most persuadable and it s very valuable. every polling expert said if this did wind up in the hands of the russians, it would be useful to them, especially in targeting their ads, which we know they did throughout 2016. we need think about the connections between these ukrainians and russians and then from there figure out what the