Pete Buttigieg leaps 16 points — and into the lead — in latest Iowa poll

There's been another changing of the guard in Iowa.South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg took the lead for the first time in the latest Democratic primary poll out of Iowa. The Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll, released Saturday, showed the mayor surging to the top ahead of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden. It doesn't look like a fluke, though there's been some fluctuation in Iowa throughout the primary's early going. Buttigieg took a relatively commanding lead over the field for the time being, receiving support from 25 percent of likely Iowa caucusgoers in the poll, a startling 16 point leap from his September standing. Warren, who was leading the September poll, fell by six points into second place at 16 percent, while Biden and Sanders were right behind her at 15 percent. Biden, the early frontrunner, fell another five percentage points, but Sanders picked up four.> Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the new Democratic front-runner in Iowa, climbing to 25% in a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers. @JohnKingCNN analyzes.https://t.co/BdlakbdyXZ pic.twitter.com/vpHqJCNufm> > -- CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) November 17, 2019The poll was conducted between Nov. 8-13, and 500 likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers were surveyed. The margin of error was 4.4 percentage points. Read more at Des Moines Register.More stories from theweek.com The coming death of just about every rock legend The president has already confessed to his crimes Why are 2020 Democrats so weird?

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