Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a comfortable lead in national Democratic primary polls, but mounting pressures have eroded his support in two pivotal early primary states and threaten the moderate lane to the party’s presidential nomination.
Biden’s lead over rival candidates has dwindled from a high of 41 percent in May, to 27 percent as of Dec. 3, according to a Real Clear Politics daily average of polling data. Revelations about his son Hunter Biden’s personal enrichment from a Ukrainian gas company, while Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s top Ukraine official, have undoubtedly damaged the former vice president, as have viral social media clips showing odd comments and strange behavior on the campaign trail.
