Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren leads former vice president Joe Biden in a new national poll in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination (SCOTT OLSON)

Washington (AFP) – Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has surged past former vice president Joe Biden in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, according to a poll published on Wednesday.

Warren was the choice of 27 percent of the Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters surveyed nationwide in the Quinnipiac University poll while 25 percent opted for Biden.

Quinnipiac said that, although the findings were within the margin of error it was the first time since March that Warren had topped Biden in a poll by the university.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was in third place with 16 percent followed by Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, with seven percent and California Senator Kamala Harris with three percent.

In an August national poll, Biden was at 32 percent, Warren at 19 precent and Sanders at 15 percent, Quinnipiac said.

Another recent poll also had Warren overtaking Biden in Iowa for the first time. Iowa is the first state to vote in the Democratic primary race.

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