Joe Biden remains the candidate to beat in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In the battle for second place, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have lost ground, while Pete Buttigieg is gaining.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey shows Biden with 37% support among Likely Democratic Voters. In distant second is Warren with 15% of the vote, followed by Sanders at 14% and Buttigieg at 12%. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted December 1, 2019 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.