Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race. Reminder: There are 213 days until the Iowa caucuses and 486 days until the 2020 presidential election.
• Quinnipiac found Biden tumbling down 8 percentage points to 22 percent from its June survey, while Harris leapt from 7 percent to 20 percent. One of Biden’s biggest advantages so far in the race is the belief by many that he would have the best chance of defeating President Trump in the general election, making him a favorite among those attempting to make an “electability” argument. According to a HuffPost/YouGov poll, that advantage is slipping away, as respondents believed in a number of candidates when asked which Democrats were capable of winning in November 2020.
“We take an ‘all of the above’ fundraising strategy, from $1 online donations, donations made through social media, all the way up to max contributions and having people raise money on our behalf,” the aide said. Hickenlooper’s candidacy suffered from a muddied launch, with the former governor first refusing to identify as a capitalist and then pivoting all the way to becoming perhaps the race’s foremost basher of socialism. The debate was a chance for Hickenlooper to make some kind of mark, but that fell flat: A flash poll by the progressive group Indivisible of its membership after the second debate saw him come in last, earning zero percent.
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