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Poll: Boat Shoes Buttigieg, Kamala Five-O No Longer 'Top Tier' Candidates

Kirsten Gillibrand achieves statistical irrelevance

August 20, 2019

Mayor Pete "Boat Shoes" Buttigieg and Sen. Kamala "Five-O" Harris were once considered "top tier" contenders in the 2020 Democratic primary. A new poll from CNN suggests that is no longer the case.

Boat Shoes and Five-O are mired in fourth place at 5 percent, well behind the emerging top tier of candidates. Joe Biden remains the frontrunner with 29 percent support, while Sens. Bernie Sanders (I., VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) are neck-in-neck with 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively. The poll is especially bad news for Harris, whose support has plummeted 12 percentage points since late June.

Meanwhile, failed Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke remains irrelevant despite his best efforts to rebrand himself as the candidate who is most offended by racism. Julián Castro and Sen. Cory Booker are also bordering on statistical irrelevance despite recent debate performances that were widely praised by pundits.

Speaking of statistical irrelevance, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, once considered a formidable contender, has managed to achieve it, joining New York Mayor Bill de Blasio among candidates whose level of support has been reduced to an asterisk.

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