This Reuters poll confounds the current conventional wisdom. But Bernie still faces a steep uphill climb.
BY JOHN BOWDEN
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has surged back into a single-digit deficit behind former Vice President Joe Biden in a poll of the Democratic primary field.
Sanders trails Biden by 9 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday, just one week after trailing the former vice president by 21 points in the same poll.
The Vermont senator sits at 39 percent among registered Democratic voters in the poll, compared to 48 percent for Biden. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), the only other high-profile Democratic contender remaining in the race, sat at 2 percent in the poll.
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