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What Went Down At The December Democratic Primary Debate

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Laura Bronner

Steyer made reference to Buttigieg’s age as a reason he should be making climate change more of an issue. But Buttigieg’s support is actually higher among older voters, according to our poll with Ipsos:

Sanders’s supporters are young, Biden’s are older

Share of respondents in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll who said they were considering supporting each candidate, by age group

Age group
candidate 18-34 35-49 50-64 65+
Sanders 56.3% 41.5% 28.5% 22.4%
Warren 44.4 40.2 35.2 32.2
Biden 39.4 51.2 57.9 65.8
Buttigieg 19.0 22.7 26.2 33.6
Yang 15.6 12.9 9.2 6.4
Klobuchar 6.8 6.8 10.5 17.0
Steyer 5.1 4.3 10.9 11.2

Data comes from polling done by Ipsos for FiveThirtyEight, using Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel, a probability-based online panel that is recruited to be representative of the U.S. population. The poll was conducted from Dec. 13 to Dec. 18 among a general population sample of adults, with 3,543 respondents who say they are likely to vote in their state’s Democratic primary or caucus. For the likely Democratic primary voter subset of respondents, the poll has a margin of error of +/- 1.8 percentage points.

Poll Bot

Nathaniel Rakich

Another good answer from Steyer on climate change, emphasizing his past leadership on the issue and even attacking Buttigieg. After a few debates in which he was utterly forgettable, I think Steyer is thus far having the debate of his campaign tonight.

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