 It shows him beating Bernie Sanders by 6, Al Gore by 5, Hillary Clinton by 7, Gavin Newsom by 8, Pete Buttigieg by 10. In other words, Joe Biden may still be the Democrats' best bet. Now, the problem is that that sucks. It is a bad bet, folks. Nate Silver has a rundown on this in which he points out that clearly at this point, Donald Trump is ahead. He's about 3.1 percentage points ahead in the polls right now.