Joe Biden Now Has Double-Digit Lead Over Bernie Sanders In National Polls

If Democrat power-players are hoping for a swift end to the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, it may happen for them this week. In addition to pulling ahead in most states with March 10th primaries, former Vice President Joe Biden is now comfortably ahead in national polls for the first time ever, posting a new, double-digit lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) according to CNN.

Biden bottomed out in national polling around February 25th, right after Sanders secured an impressive, two-to-one victory over his opponents in the Nevada caucuses. At that point, Sanders seemed the odds-on favorite to take the nomination, though the prospects of a “brokered convention,” where no single contender for the nomination wins a majority of available delegates and the Democratic National Convention must go to a second vote where candidates wheel and deal for support, were also critically high.