Bernie Sanders Is the Most Popular Candidate Among College Students, While Donald Trump Is No. 2, Poll SaysAmerican college students have chosen Bernie Sanders as their candidate of choice according to a new Axios/CollegeReaction.com poll, outpacing President Donald Trump, who sits in second place, by 5.2 percent.
Sanders captured 22.5 percent of the approval of those polled while incumbent Trump received 17.3 percent. Senator Elizabeth Warren came in third with 15.9 percent.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, who led the poll with almost 19 percent in April, dropped to fourth place in the most recent poll with 12.3 percent. His ranking in this poll has hovered around 13 percent in each of these polls taken since April.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang collected 9.3 percent to take fifth place while South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg came in sixth place with 8.2 percent.
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"Buttigieg was the only other candidate to gain more than one point in this poll since October," according to Axios.
Other candidates in the 2020 presidential race came in at under 3 percent in the poll including Senator Kamala Harris who dropped out of the running on Tuesday.
Newsweek reached out to the campaigns of both Sanders and Trump but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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