--- title: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Surge in New Iowa Poll description: Others once seen as competitive in Iowa have also seen their support dwindle canonical: https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-31T10:26:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:34:03.066Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Surge in New Iowa Poll og:description: Others once seen as competitive in Iowa have seen their support dwindle og:url: https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Surge in New Iowa Poll twitter:description: Others once seen as competitive in Iowa have seen their support dwindle twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Surge in New Iowa Poll ## Video: Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump [Watch (HLS stream): Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8) (1:21)  _Published 2015-07-23. Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_ by [Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News Aug 31, 2015 10:26 AM UTC by [Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News Aug 31, 2015 10:26 AM UTC Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and businessman Donald Trump — the two biggest anti-establishment candidates in the Democratic and Republican presidential primary fields, respectively — have seen their support surge, according to a new survey of voters likely to participate in the Iowa caucuses. In [the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2015/08/29/iowa-poll-democrats-august/71387664/), Sanders is now polling just seven points behind Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton, nearly doubling his share of the vote since [the last survey was conducted in May](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/06/01/iowa-poll-democrats-hillary-clinton-controversies/28279617/). Sanders takes 30 percent support, while Clinton draws 37 percent, marking the first time she’s dropped below 50 percent in the poll… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/sanders-trump-surge-new-iowa-poll-n418471?cid=par-time-article%5F20150831) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/"},"headline":"Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Surge in New Iowa Poll","datePublished":"2015-08-31T10:26:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:34:03.066Z","description":"Others once seen as competitive in Iowa have seen their support dwindle","url":"https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/","name":"Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Surge in New Iowa Poll"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch The Best Quotes By Donald Trump","description":"Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7MzTpVq2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-07-23T21:38:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7MzTpVq2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/","duration":"PT1M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4016798/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-poll-iowa/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```