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What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 12 percent of people said the economy and jobs was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)
Who voters think is best on the economy and jobs
Among the 338 respondents who said the economy and jobs was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll
| candidate | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 41.6% | |
| Bernie Sanders | 21.5 | |
| Someone else | 10.3 | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 8.3 | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 7.5 | |
| Tom Steyer | 6.4 | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 3.0 |
In a December IBD/TIPP poll, 47 percent of Americans said that tariffs on Chinese goods were hurting the U.S. economy, compared to 23 percent who said they were helping and 20 percent who said they had no impact.
On an actual substantive point of disagreement between Warren and Sanders, neither seemed too inclined to lean into their conflict.