Bernie Sanders has cut Hillary Clinton’s national polling lead in half after the results of the first two Democratic nominating contests, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Still, Clinton holds a double-digit advantage over Sanders, with the next race taking place in Nevada on Saturday and with the two candidates participating in a town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday night beginning at 9:00 pm ET on MSNBC.
Fifty-three percent of Democratic primary voters say they back the former secretary of state, while 42 percent of them support the Vermont senator.
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But Clinton’s 11-point lead over Sanders is down from her 25-point edge a month ago — before Sanders’ blowout victory in New Hampshire and narrow loss in Iowa.
In the new poll, Clinton leads Sanders among minorities (62 percent to 33 percent), women (58 percent to 39 percent), primary voters ages 50 and older (62 percent to 31 percent) and self-identified Democrats (58 percent to 37 percent).
Sanders, meanwhile, holds the edge among white men (54 percent to 41 percent), independents (61 percent to 33 percent) and primary voters under the age of 50 (57 percent to 40 percent).
In the poll, 73 percent of Democratic primary voters consider themselves “progressives,” and 68 percent say that label applies to Sanders and 65 percent say it applies to Clinton.









