Former Vice President Joe Biden (AP photo)

Lucy Flores, the former Nevada assemblywoman whose allegation of unwanted physical contact from Joe Biden re-launched a national discussion about the former vice president's hands-on style, backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016. Some politics watchers don't think that's a coincidence.

After all, they point out, Biden is the front-runner in poll after poll of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, even though he hasn’t formally announced he’s running.

The candidate in second place in almost every poll: Sanders.

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Agree. Thank you @SenSanders. And thanks for putting accountability protocols in your campaign structure. Women deserve to be respected and feel safe whether they work in politics or anywhere else. https://t.co/VrScbkshgM — Lucy Flores (@LucyFlores) March 31, 2019

Flores says she hasn't yet committed to a 2020 presidential candidate.

That would make her like many other Democratic voters. These are, let's remember, very early days, when the primary race is expected to be fluid. That said, the Democratic polls so far have been consistent at the top. Biden and Sanders, the two best-known White House challengers, are out front, and the rest of the pack is jockeying for position way back in their rear-view mirrors.

Will one of the candidates from the second tier soon start to push into double-digits and challenge for front-runner status? Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke has recently shown signs of buoyancy, as has South Bend (Ind.) Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Yet so has the non-candidate known as “Someone Else.”

Below are the latest polls of likely Democratic primary voters, both national surveys and a few from key individual states.

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Morning Consult poll (national)

Joe Biden: 33%

Bernie Sanders: 25%

Kamala Harris: 8%

Beto O’Rourke: 8%

Elizabeth Warren: 7%

Cory Booker: 4%

Someone Else: 3%

Amy Klobuchar: 2%

Julian Castro: 1%

Tulsi Gabbard: 1%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 1%

John Hickenlooper: 1%

Jay Inslee: 1%

John Delaney: 1%

Steve Bullock: 1%

More about the poll.

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Rasmussen/Harris poll (national)

Joe Biden 29%

Bernie Sanders: 18%

Beto O’Rourke: 6%

Elizabeth Warren: 5%

Cory Booker: 4%

Pete Buttigieg: 3%

Amy Klobuchar: 2%

John Delaney: 1%

Tulsi Gabbard: 1%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 1%

Marianne Williamson: 1%

Andrew Yang: 1%

John Hickenlooper: 0%

Jay Inslee: 0%

Other: 1%

More about the poll.

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Real Clear Politics poll aggregate (national)

Joe Biden: 29.2%

Bernie Sanders: 21.8%

Kamala Harris: 9.8%

Beto O’Rourke: 9.2%

Elizabeth Warren: 5.7%

Cory Booker: 3.2%

Pete Buttigieg: 2.2%

Amy Klobuchar: 1.7%

Andrew Yang: 1%

Julian Castro: 1%

John Hickenlooper: 0.7%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 0.7%

Jay Inslee: 0.7%

More about the poll aggregate.

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Emerson poll (early primary state Nevada only)

Joe Biden: 26%

Bernie Sanders: 23%

Beto O’Rourke: 10%

Elizabeth Warren: 10%

Kamala Harris: 9%

Someone Else: 6%

Pete Buttigieg: 5%

Andrew Yang: 3%

Amy Klobuchar: 2%

Cory Booker: 2%

Tulsi Gabbard: 2%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 1%

Julian Castro: 1%

John Hickenlooer: 0%

Jay Inslee: 0%

More about the poll.

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Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll (early caucus state Iowa only)

Joe Biden: 27%

Bernie Sanders: 25%

Not Sure: 10%

Elizabeth Warren: 9%

Kamala Harris: 7%

Beto O’Rourke: 5%

Cory Booker: 3%

Amy Klobuchar: 3%

None of These: 3%

Julian Castro: 1%

Michael Bennet: 1%

Pete Buttigieg: 1%

Steve Bullock: 1%

John Delaney: 1%

Jay Inslee: 1%

Tulsi Gabbard: 0%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 0%

John Hickenlooper: 0%

Marianne Williamson: 0%

Andrew Yang: 0%

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Zogby poll (Oregon only)

Bernie Sanders: 27%

Joe Biden: 26%

Not Sure: 11%

Beto O’Rourke: 8%

Kamala Harris: 6%

Elizabeth Warren: 6%

Cory Booker: 4%

Andrew Yang: 4%

Pete Buttigieg: 3%

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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (AP photo)

John Hickenlooper: 1%

Jay Inslee: 1%

Kirsten Gillibrand: 1%

John Delaney: 1%

Terry McAuliffe: 1%

Tulsi Gabbard: 1%

Julian Castro: 1%

More about the poll.

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-- Douglas Perry

@douglasmperry

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