concerns and controversy around her candidacy to rest. let's take a look at the new numbers. she sits atop at democratic field at 42%, up from 5 points earlier this month, followed by bernie sanders at 24% and joe biden at 22%. but if you take biden out of the equation, her support soars. she's at 57% in our new poll while sanders has 28%. she's climbing, sanders is falling. their margin now, 29 points from only 16 earlier this month. is is why so many democrats are keeping such a close eye on whether joe biden decides to jump in. if he does, the contrast is much, much more competitive. while there's no concrete time line, one top democrat supportive of biden tells me this morning, we'll likely know within the next two weeks. now, one person who's not an obstacle now is jill biden. to push back against some of the reports that she does not want her husband to run, her spokesman issued this statement,