© Provided by News Communications, Inc. Bloomberg ties with Harris, Klobuchar in new national poll

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) is now tied with Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in a new poll of the Democratic primary race.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found Bloomberg with the support of 3 percent of Democratic and left-leaning independent voters nationwide, higher than entrepreneur Andrew Yang (D) and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, as well as Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who all registered 2 percent support in the poll.

Bloomberg and his fellow candidates in the single digits all significantly trailed the party's current frontrunners, former Vice President Joe Biden (D), Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), who have vied for control of the top tier of the Democratic field for months.

The former mayor has yet to qualify for the national debate stage even as other candidates near the same level of support have done so. With the December debate polling qualifications rising to four percent in four national or early-state polls, Bloomberg's odds of qualifying look thin as he has already signaled that he will not compete in early state contests.

Other candidates in the primary including billionaire Tom Steyer and the recently-announced former Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) failed to register even 1 percent support from Democratic and left-leaning Independent voters in the Quinnipiac poll, and could also be excluded from December's debate.

The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 574 self-identified Democratic primary voters between Nov. 21-25 with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.