of voters get an opportunity to weigh in on the democratic field, and with all due respect to everyone who wants to write the obituary for joe biden, i think that is a little premature when black people haven t voted yet and hispanic voters haven t voted yet. let s go back to david. some more entrance poll results. remember an early look at the early people who are showing up at these caucus sites, these numbers are going to change as we get more and more interviews in throughout the night but we do get some clue, so the electability question that we have been asking all season long, are you looking for someone who agrees with you on the issue or a trump defeater. and 63% are looking for somebody who can defeat donald trump. 36% looking for someone who they agree with on the issues. that s the primary character trait they re looking for. how about the number one issue, same as we saw in iowa and new
the middle they can t seem to get together as one to try to defeat donald trump. that s just the key. the party is so hungry for a trump defeater. all above all else they want the dragon slayer. when you see these folks weighing publicly of getting in so late, it is this hand wringing that the dragon slayer, the real trump defeater is not there. thank you all very much. coming up in a bit more than an hour i ll be speaking to joe biden live from iowa. we re in the room. that will be the stage. our audience is filling up and that is coming up with the presidential town hall at 9:00 right here on cnn. next, can a presidential candidate succeed without running here in iowa in that s michael bloomberg s most unconventional strategy and elizabeth warren not backing down on taking on america s
and warren and harris the top five among hispanics and if you look at white voters, warren and biden are splitting it 23% for warren, 21% for biden and sanders at 15%. so those african-american voters are critical for joe biden. we ve seen democratic polls that electability is more important than find aig candidate they agree with on most issues. what does this poll show about who do they think is most electable. that is a majority position for democrats. 55% if you look here of democrats say the strong chance of beating donald trump is what they re looking for in a candidate. just 39% say they re looking for somebody who shares their position on the issues. among that 55%, the ones who want a trump defeater, if you will, take a look at this. elizabeth warren on the rise. last month among this group she was at 15%. now she s all the way up to 21%. you see joe biden is on the decline here and bernie sanders a little bit on the decline. this is really important. elizabeth warren maki
going away, democrats are looking for a strong chance to beat trump. 55%, a majority of democrats say that throughout the campaign but this is fascinating, among that group, among that 55%, elizabeth warren is making some significant strides. take a look among those democrats who want a trump defeater, if you will, biden had 35% with that group in august. he s now down nine points to 26%. while warren in august she was among she had 15% support among this group and she s up six points to 21%. we see a little dip twl there for sanders within the margin of area and we know electability means different things to different people but we see elizabeth warren is starting to make strides on this notion with voters who are looking for somebody who could beat donald trump. very significant indeed. what is our poll, david, reveal about voter enthusiasm heading
three, biden, sanders, warren, they re in a dead heat, battling over liberals. when it comes to the moderate and conservative democrats and democratic leaning independents, joe biden wins that group going away. this is going to be critical for joe biden s continued success in this race. now, we ask, who do you think you want as a candidate, somebody that can beat donald trump or somebody that shares your positions. a majority of democrats still, 54%, want somebody with a strong chance of beating trump, 39%, somebody who shares their positions. that s a bit lower than we have seen before. and take a look at some of the demographic splits on the issue, college educated versus noncollege educated white voters. if you re a college-educated voter in the poll, 65% want a trump defeater. white college educated, a key group for joe biden and bernie sanders, they re looking for somebody that actually shares