Highlights From the Final Day Before Voting Image Senator Elizabeth Warren held a town hall event in Portsmouth on Monday. Credit... Ruth Fremson/The New York Times With one day left until the first primary of the Democratic presidential contest — and perhaps the first decisive result — the candidates fanned out across New Hampshire for a final stretch of campaigning on Monday.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has led recent polling averages of the primary, but former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., has come close to matching his support in many surveys. Both are trying to crowd out rivals. And they’re still fighting over the close Iowa outcome, with both campaigns requesting a recanvass of certain precincts.

The candidates who finished behind Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Sanders in Iowa are hoping for a strong finish on Tuesday.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who finished third, doubled her post-Iowa fund-raising goal to $4 million. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the fourth-place finisher, is trying to re-energize his campaign. And Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who came in fifth, has been seeing bigger crowds.

President Trump came to New Hampshire, too: He held a campaign rally in Manchester on Monday night and will be on the Republican ballot Tuesday. New Hampshire was his first win in the 2016 primary, but he narrowly lost the state to Hillary Clinton in the general election.

Feb. 10, 2020, 10:50 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 10:50 p.m. ET By Klobuchar looks to Nevada ‘and beyond.’ MANCHESTER — Amy Klobuchar, sounding only slightly hoarse at her fifth rally of the day, at a bar in downtown Manchester, told voters she was in the process of firing up her campaign operation in the coming Nevada caucuses — “and beyond,” she added. More than any other major candidate, Ms. Klobuchar will have to expand her organization in Nevada in a tightly compressed time frame before the Feb. 22 caucuses. She has focused overwhelmingly so far on Iowa and New Hampshire, and for most of the race has faced significant financial constraints. But a Klobuchar aide said on Monday that the campaign was shifting staff members out of Iowa and into Nevada, and Ms. Klobuchar appears to be in a stronger financial position after a post-debate infusion of online cash. “We’re so excited about tomorrow night and then to Nevada, where we’re building a big operation,” Ms. Klobuchar said. She went on to repeat a plea she has offered over the last few days, telling New Hampshire voters “this is a big deal for me here” and crediting the state with having vaulted relatively unknown or underfunded candidates into national contention in the past. Without strong finishes in both New Hampshire and Nevada — and perhaps even with them — it could be exceedingly difficult for Ms. Klobuchar to compete across the enormous Super Tuesday map in early March. But the mere fact that Ms. Klobuchar is confidently turning her attention west represents a real shift from just last week, when her fifth-place finish in Iowa seemed unlikely, on its own, to change the trajectory of her campaign. Without the intervening debate, Ms. Klobuchar could well have been headed for another likely fifth-place finish, leaving her future as a candidate in serious doubt. Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 8:52 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 8:52 p.m. ET Ocasio-Cortez and the Strokes turn out for Bernie Sanders. Image Credit... Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spoke at a concert by the Strokes in support of Bernie Sanders in Durham.

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Feb. 10, 2020, 8:45 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 8:45 p.m. ET By Annie Karni and Trump sizes up the 2020 Democrats at his New Hampshire rally: ‘They’re all weak.’ MANCHESTER — In his first rally since the Senate acquitted him on charges that he abused power and obstructed Congress, a triumphant President Trump returned on Monday to New Hampshire, the state where he won his first primary in 2016 and that he hopes to carry in 2020. At a rally in an arena that top officials billed as something of a homecoming, Mr. Trump’s crowd erupted in vintage chants of “Lock her up!” when he referred to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s behavior at his State of the Union address last week, when she tore up a copy of his remarks after he finished. “I’m speaking and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me, angry,” he said. “We’re the ones who should be angry.” But Mr. Trump also credited Ms. Pelosi and the impeachment trial for an increase in his poll numbers. “Thank you, Nancy,” he said. Mr. Trump and his top campaign aides made it clear that their immediate goal in coming to Manchester on the eve of the New Hampshire primary was to steal attention from a competitive Democratic primary in which Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., are running almost neck and neck in many surveys. Mr. Trump dangled the idea that in the open primary, Republicans could try to influence the outcome. “A lot of Republicans tomorrow will vote for the weakest candidate,” Mr. Trump said. “My only problem is I’m trying to figure out who is the weakest candidate. I think they’re all weak.” Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 8:39 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 8:39 p.m. ET By In New Hampshire, Joe Biden looks forward to ‘heading south.’ MANCHESTER — Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s closing message on the eve of the New Hampshire primary looked far beyond the state’s borders. “We’re going to do just fine heading south and across this country,” he told the crowd at a rally in Manchester. “We’re going to win this nomination.” Mr. Biden has sought to play down Tuesday’s primary, describing himself as an “underdog” and predicting that he would “probably take a hit” in the state. But after a fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, another poor performance is likely to raise further doubts about his candidacy, even as Mr. Biden and his team look forward to nominating contests in more diverse later-voting states where Mr. Biden is expected to have more strength. At the rally on Monday night, Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, entered to Carrie Underwood’s “The Champion.” The song’s lyrics offered perhaps an optimistic take about how Mr. Biden would respond to a poor performance in Tuesday’s primary: I am invincible, unbreakable Unstoppable, unshakeable They knock me down, I get up again I am the champion Dr. Biden told the crowd that she chose the song. “Did you like it?” she asked. “I am invincible. That’s Joe Biden.” Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 8:33 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 8:33 p.m. ET By Amy Klobuchar tells voters: ‘We are on a surge, as they say.’ ROCHESTER — Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota encouraged voters here to believe in the possibility of an upset in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, plying them with information about polling and fund-raising and reminding them that she had been counted out before. Opening with the news of two polls that found her climbing into third place in New Hampshire, Ms. Klobuchar told the audience at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post near the Maine border: “We are on a surge, as they say.” For Ms. Klobuchar, there is great urgency to the task of convincing voters that she remains viable in the race beyond New Hampshire. She is competing for many of the same voters — moderate Democrats, independents and disaffected Republicans — as former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., who finished far ahead of Ms. Klobuchar in Iowa. There is a risk to both candidates if they split that vote, and a serious danger to Ms. Klobuchar if moderates break for Mr. Buttigieg because they see him as having a better chance to win. But Ms. Klobuchar offered encouragement, and perhaps vented a bit of frustration, by recalling the long months last year when she was treated by the news media as a marginal contender, likelier to drop out before the start of voting than to become one of the finalists. “Then they predict, ‘Oh, is she going to make it through the summer? Is she going to make it to the next debate?’” Ms. Klobuchar said. “And every single time, we made it.” To students of New Hampshire politics, there was an ironic echo in Ms. Klobuchar’s talk of a surge in a V.F.W. post here. A dozen years ago, it was another senator who barnstormed through venues like this one, hammering at the very same word — only it was a Republican, John McCain, and it was a reference to new troop deployments in Iraq. He went on to win the New Hampshire primary. Ms. Klobuchar briefly alluded to Mr. McCain in her remarks and told the crowd that she missed him greatly, particularly over the last few weeks, in what seemed plainly to be a reference to the impeachment trial of President Trump. Read more

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Feb. 10, 2020, 8:31 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 8:31 p.m. ET By Where do the 2020 candidates stand on Social Security? Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have increasingly tangled in recent weeks over Social Security, a dust-up that underscores the recent transformation of political debate on the government program. As recently as 2013, benefit cuts were widely embraced by Mr. Biden and many other centrist Democrats as part of broader bipartisan deals to repair Social Security’s finances or to reduce the federal deficit, which never reached fruition. Progressives fought the benefit-cutting. And that year, they began pushing the idea that benefits should be expanded. Since then, the Democratic Party has taken a decisive left turn on Social Security: In 2020, none of the 11 Democratic presidential candidates advocate cuts, and most favor expanding benefits. Here’s a deeper look at where both Democrats and Republicans now stand.

Feb. 10, 2020, 7:45 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 7:45 p.m. ET Jill Biden helped remove a protester at her husband’s event. Image Credit... Elizabeth Frantz for The New York Times Dr. Jill Biden stepped in while her husband, Joseph R. Biden Jr., was speaking at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester. “I’m a good Philly girl,” Dr. Biden later told reporters.

Feb. 10, 2020, 7:40 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 7:40 p.m. ET By A Trump ally has praise for a Trump rival: Michael Bloomberg. Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a longtime friend of President Trump and the man who ran his inauguration after his 2016 victory, said Monday that former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York would be “an amazing president.” The remark, made to CNBC at a conference in Abu Dhabi, is unlikely to please Mr. Trump, who has been watching Mr. Bloomberg’s spending binge on his presidential campaign top $300 million and has complained about it repeatedly to aides. “I like Mike Bloomberg, I know him, I think he would be an amazing president, he was an amazing mayor,” Mr. Barrack told the network. “He’s run a first-class business, he’s smart, he’s thoughtful, he’s considerate, he’s done it all before, and he doesn’t need anything.” Mr. Barrack also praised former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is seeking to reinvigorate his campaign since a dismal showing in the still-unsettled Iowa caucuses last week. But Mr. Barrack made clear at other points in the interview that he is still a strong supporter of Mr. Trump. Mr. Bloomberg is not competing in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. Read more

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Feb. 10, 2020, 7:37 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 7:37 p.m. ET See how photographers captured the final hours of the campaign. Image Amy Klobuchar changed into more comfortable shoes before starting a photo line at her event in Exeter. Credit... Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times A ferocious week of campaigning is coming to a close in New Hampshire on Monday. Since the frenzy in Iowa one week ago, candidates have barnstormed the state ahead of its primary on Tuesday, the nation’s first. See what New York Times photographers captured in the final hours on the trail.

Feb. 10, 2020, 5:43 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 5:43 p.m. ET By Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman and Trump returns to New Hampshire, the first state he won in the 2016 primary. MANCHESTER — In his first rally since his Senate impeachment acquittal, President Trump is returning on Monday night to New Hampshire, the state that offered jet fuel to his 2016 presidential campaign with his first primary victory. Four years ago, Mr. Trump benefited from a crowded field of traditional Republican candidates. This time around, the incumbent president has no real primary. A field of three challengers has already been whittled down to one — former Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts — who has failed to make any dent in Mr. Trump’s popularity among Republicans. On Monday, Mr. Trump and his top campaign aides made it clear they were focused on stealing attention from a competitive Democratic primary, where Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg are running almost neck and neck in many surveys. And they were eager to begin running a general election strategy in a state they lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by just 2,700 votes, believing they can expand the map in November. Mr. Trump’s rally at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester will bring him back to the venue where he shocked voters with a vulgar description of his chief rival at the time, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. The president traveled to New Hampshire surrounded by many of the surrogates who flooded Iowa on his behalf last week. Air Force One was all but converted into a campaign plane for the event: Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, was aboard, along with several Republican House members who had flanked Mr. Trump during impeachment, including Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader; Steve Scalise of Louisiana; Mark Meadows of North Carolina; and Matt Gaetz of Florida. As the president deplaned, he was trailed by a long line of campaign surrogates and was met by two more on the ground: Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager. Speaking to reporters aboard the plane, Mr. Scalise said the showing of support was like “getting the band back together.” He said the president was dropping him off so he could join the group fanning out across the state in support of Mr. Trump. Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 5:31 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 5:31 p.m. ET By Despite a gloomy prediction, Biden says he’s ‘feeling good.’ Image Joseph R. Biden Jr. thanked canvassers at his campaign office in Salem, N.H., on Monday. Credit... Elizabeth Frantz for The New York Times SALEM — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has freely admitted that he is unlikely to do well in the New Hampshire primary, declaring at the Democratic debate on Friday night that he would “probably take a hit here.” But in a brief visit to a field office in Salem on Monday afternoon, he projected an upbeat outlook, despite his earlier assessment of how he would fare in Tuesday’s contest. “I feel good,” he told a small group of volunteers. “It’s feeling good,” he said at another point. “We’re feeling good,” he declared. “It just feels good,” he affirmed. “Keep the faith,” he said as he concluded.

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Feb. 10, 2020, 5:27 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 5:27 p.m. ET By An overflow crowd comes to Klobuchar’s aid. Image People stood outside to catch a glimpse of Amy Klobuchar at a campaign stop in Exeter on Monday. Credit... Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times EXETER — Some candidates simply speak to their overflow rooms, where people who couldn’t fit into the main event space congregate. On Monday, Amy Klobuchar turned hers into a stump speech asset. In the middle of her remarks here, Ms. Klobuchar gave a shoutout to the overflow crowd, out of sight from the 550 people packed into the old town hall. It responded with a rapid stomping of feet, and the low rumble was audible from the stage. Ms. Klobuchar broke into a broad smile. Minutes later, as a member of the audience began to shout questions at the candidate in the middle of her stump speech, Ms. Klobuchar turned to her invisible allies. “Overflow crowd, save me!” she shouted from the stage. The rumble, this time closer to rolling thunder, overcame the crowd. (The question was simply whether Ms. Klobuchar thought President Trump would actually debate her. She said she expected him to debate, but if not, she would just “call him a chicken.”) To thank her overflow crowd, Ms. Klobuchar offered to tell a secret story after her speech. Repeating a laugh line about her father’s lack of savings after three marriages, she changed the punchline. The failed marriages, she said, are “another story that I’ll only tell the overflow crowd.” One more rumble rippled through the hall. Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 5:12 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 5:12 p.m. ET By ‘If you had a crystal ball,’ Yang says of his time spent in Iowa, ‘you probably would invest differently.’ PORTSMOUTH — Andrew Yang has signaled repeatedly this week that he needs to do well in the New Hampshire primary for his campaign to remain viable. After an event in Portsmouth on Monday, Mr. Yang went as far as calling New Hampshire his “best state.” He reiterated that the campaign needed to have a “very positive surprise tomorrow.” Asked about new polls showing a decline in his support among New Hampshire voters and whether he regretted spending so much time in Iowa before the caucuses, he said: “Certainly I think if you had a crystal ball and perfect information, given what happened in Iowa, you probably would invest differently.” “But we’re excited about the energy and momentum we’re seeing here,” he said. “We think we’re going to overperform the polls here significantly tomorrow.”

Feb. 10, 2020, 5:11 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 5:11 p.m. ET By Iowa Democrats say they’ll respond to the campaigns’ recanvass requests in 48 hours. Image Troy Price, the Iowa Democratic Party chairman, at a news conference in Des Moines on Monday. Credit... Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party said on Monday that it had received requests from Bernie Sanders’s and Pete Buttigieg’s campaigns for a partial recanvass of the state’s jumbled caucus results and would respond within 48 hours. Results released by the party show Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Sanders locked in a tight race separated by fractions of percentage points, meaning that adjustments to the tallies could swing the race one way or the other. The campaigns urged a re-examination of results in 143 precincts, the party chairman, Troy Price, told reporters in Des Moines. Mr. Sanders’s campaign formally asked for a recanvass of 28 precincts earlier on Monday, and Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign responded by filing requests for a recanvass in 66 precincts and all in-state satellite precincts — “a total of 143 precincts, removing duplicities,” the party said in a news release. A recanvass means checking handwritten worksheets from each precinct in question against the official data reported by the party. But Mr. Price confirmed on Monday that the party will not change even obvious miscalculations on the worksheets themselves. “We do not believe we should be altering the official record of what happened in the room,” he said. The New York Times reported on Monday that a lawyer for the party had advised the worksheets could not be fixed because they are a legal record and altering them would be a crime. Mr. Price noted that a recount could still be requested, which would require the hand-counting of about 180,000 preference cards from caucusgoers. The party chairman again expressed regret for the botched handling of the nominating contest. “It is safe to say this was not the caucus that the hundreds of thousands of Iowa Democrats deserved,” he said. Asked about Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, “throwing you under the bus” in his public statements about the Iowa confusion, Mr. Price smiled slightly and paused. “Obviously I was very disappointed by the chairman’s comments,” he said, adding, “There’s going to be a time to assign blame, but I will tell you the D.N.C. has been a partner in this process up to, including and after caucus night.” Read more

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Feb. 10, 2020, 5:08 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 5:08 p.m. ET By Warren dismisses skeptics: ‘Who was supposed to still be in this race today? And who wasn’t?’ Image Elizabeth Warren spoke to reporters on her press bus after a “Get Out the Vote” event in Rochester. Credit... Ruth Fremson/The New York Times ROCHESTER — Speaking to reporters on her press bus Monday, Elizabeth Warren dismissed the notion that New Hampshire was a must-win state for her after her third-place finish in Iowa. “Who was supposed to still be in this race today? And who wasn’t?” she fired back. “I think I wasn’t. And a lot of people who were supposed to have wrapped this up aren’t here. I think the prediction business, right now, is not something I’d be investing heavily in.” Ms. Warren also made a pointed remark about the prospect of her dropping out the race. In response to a question about what message it would send, she said, “I cannot say to all those little girls, ‘This got hard and I quit.’ My job is to persist.” Ms. Warren has another event this evening, in Portsmouth, before a slew of campaign stops on Tuesday. She has stagnated in polls in the state and is thought to be firmly behind the leaders in the state — Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg. Asked by The Times why her message of uniting the Democratic Party would work, given that several candidates have already failed with that message, Ms. Warren said, “we’re at a different point in time.” “We’re at a point in time where there’s great fluidity in this campaign, and there’s a lot of folks shooting at other folks,” she said. “Democrats cannot do a repeat of 2016.” Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 4:28 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 4:28 p.m. ET By Joe Biden to South Carolina: See you soon. MANCHESTER — Fresh off a fourth-place finish in Iowa and staring down bleak prospects in New Hampshire, Joseph R. Biden Jr. looked ahead on Monday to the state he’s still hoping will be his firewall: South Carolina, with its majority black Democratic electorate. In a phone call with top supporters in that state on Monday afternoon, Mr. Biden expressed enthusiasm about South Carolina’s primary and promised to visit soon, according to sources on the call. He also touted the endorsements he has received in South Carolina and from the Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus. The call was moderated by Symone D. Sanders, a senior adviser to Mr. Biden, and both she and Mr. Biden suggested that South Carolina was where the nomination will be decided, because it’s a better microcosm of the Democratic Party than Iowa and New Hampshire, both predominantly white states. Mr. Biden, who polls show is currently strong with black voters, has long banked on a strong showing in South Carolina, and hoped that such a dynamic would catapult him into Super Tuesday, when 14 large and more diverse states vote. But after his weak Iowa finish and the challenges he appears to face in New Hampshire, he may confront substantial political and financial challenges before he reaches South Carolina, which votes later this month. Mr. Biden spent Monday campaigning in New Hampshire. Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 3:56 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 3:56 p.m. ET By Only 17% of Democrats think Iowa should remain first. Democrats are still deeply divided on who should represent them. But they’re united on one thing: They don’t want Iowa to choose. In a national Quinnipiac poll released today — the same one that showed Bernie Sanders in the lead — 64 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said Iowa should not be the first state to vote. Only 17 percent said it should, and 19 percent were unsure. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. These opinions were remarkably consistent across demographic lines. There was not a single demographic category — gender, race, age, education, income, ideology — in which more than 30 percent thought Iowa should retain its first-in-the-nation status. Criticizing Iowa’s place of honor in the nominating calendar is a longstanding tradition, but the criticism has been particularly strong this cycle among Democrats, largely because Iowa — heavily white and older — is not at all representative of the Democratic Party. (Neither is New Hampshire, which votes second.) Several presidential candidates made that argument in recent months, and the bungled caucuses poured fuel on the fire. Caucuses themselves are also inherently exclusionary, and several states — including Kansas, Maine and Hawaii — have recently switched to primaries. But Iowa can’t do that without risking its first-in-the-nation status, because New Hampshire owns the first primary. Read more

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Feb. 10, 2020, 3:12 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 3:12 p.m. ET By Warren calls back to an old message: ‘Nevertheless, she persisted.’ Image Elizabeth Warren held an event at the Rochester Opera House on Monday. Credit... Ruth Fremson/The New York Times ROCHESTER — Faced with an all-important New Hampshire primary and stalling poll numbers, Elizabeth Warren went back to a message that became a rallying cry during her Senate tenure: “Nevertheless, she persisted.” Ms. Warren has recounted the episode that produced the quotation during campaign stops this weekend, including Monday’s event at the Rochester Opera House. She described how, after she had tried to block the nomination of Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Mitch McConnell uttered the phrase to admonish Ms. Warren — which immediately backfired and went viral. Ms. Warren is seeking to relate that episode to this primary race, in which her campaign is seeking a jolt after a third-place finish in Iowa. She called it another example of the “unwinnable fights” she has won her whole life, including her working class upbringing, her rise to becoming a Harvard professor, and her Senate race victory in 2012. “It’s the folks with persistence that are going to win,” Ms. Warren said. Ms. Warren’s campaign has tried to manage expectations before Tuesday’s vote. Another third-place finish would allow the campaign to head into this month’s contests in Nevada and South Carolina with a clear story about the first two states. A fourth- or fifth-place finish would project a campaign in decline. She framed the general election as existential. “We have one job come November and that is beat Donald Trump,” Ms. Warren told the crowd. “We have a second job and that is take back the Senate.” Read more

Feb. 10, 2020, 2:44 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2020, 2:44 p.m. ET By Bernie Sanders surges in a national poll. Image Bernie Sanders made a campaign stop in Rindge on Monday. A new poll shows him at 25 percent support among registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents nationally. Credit... Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Bernie Sanders surged to the top of a new Quinnipiac poll, logging by far his best result in a national debate-qualifying survey this year. The poll shows Mr. Sanders at 25 percent among registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, and Joseph R. Biden Jr. at 17 percent. While Mr. Sanders has occasionally polled a couple of points higher nationally, this is the first time he has had a lead outside the margin of error (plus or minus 3.8 percentage points). Michael R. Bloomberg is at 15 percent and Elizabeth Warren is at 14 percent — both within the margin of error in relation to Mr. Biden. These numbers show that Ms. Warren, who finished third in Iowa, is still competitive. They are also by far the best numbers yet for Mr. Bloomberg, who is not competing in the first four contests but is spending staggering amounts of money in the states that will vote on Super Tuesday. Pete Buttigieg is up slightly since the Iowa caucuses: 10 percent, compared with 6 percent in Quinnipiac’s last national poll, released Jan. 28. But that still puts him in fifth place, underscoring the challenges he faces among the broader Democratic electorate despite his first- or very close second-place finish in Iowa and his strong polling numbers in New Hampshire. Read more