Washington: Democratic primary voters nationwide see former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren as relatively close to their own political views but regard Senator Bernie Sanders as significantly further to their left, a new University of Southern California Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows.

Elizabeth Warren is running for the Democratic presidential nomination on a platform to reduce economic inequality and racial injustice. Credit:AP

The Democrats see Biden as slightly more conservative than themselves and Warren as slightly more liberal, the poll found.

As with other recent surveys, the latest USC/L.A. Times poll shows Biden, Sanders and Warren as the top choices for Democrats nationwide, with Warren having moved into a rough tie with Sanders for second place behind Biden. Senator Kamala Harris has faded, having lost many of her supporters after a spike earlier in the summer.

Among the lead trio, Sanders has a couple of significant disadvantages, the poll indicates.